Family Empowerment Is Now
Our #1 Objective
FASTrack: Family Accountability & Sustainability
Empower women and youth to move towards self-sufficiency:
Dependency
Individual child sponsorship can create a cycle of dependency if guardians are not empowered to contribute to the welfare of their child. We do a disservice to the youth we are trying to help if guardians rely too heavily on charity to meet their needs.
Interdependency
Our Family Empowerment Program (FEP) invests in Income Generating Activities (IGAs) and other programs that increase the capacity of women to care for all of their children. In this way, we work as accountability partners to move families toward economic security.
Independence
The goal is to see sponsored students and their guardians rise together – to become socially and economically self-sufficient, as well as contribute to positive and lasting community development. Our hope is that beneficiaries will be able to provide for themselves long-term and well beyond COU’s support.
EMPOWERMENT
In FASTrack, sponsored students and their guardians rise together – becoming socially and economically self-sufficient, as well as contributing to positive and lasting community development.
We believe that the chains of poverty and the cycle of dependency can and will be broken by creating partnership opportunities that result in multi-generational progress.
For $600 a year, your FASTrack partnership will provide holistic care and investments for an entire family unit including Income Generating Activity (IGA) training and inputs, livelihood support, counseling and medical care as needed.
IGA projects we’ve invested in include tailoring, crop farming, coffee trade, charcoal stall, piggeries, poultry keeping, vegetable stand, beauty salon, retail shop, mat weaving and more.
The ultimate goal is to see families able to provide for themselves long-term and well beyond COU’s support. Will you become a FASTrack partner today?
90
Income Generating
Projects
Supported
1,855
Women and Youth
Have Benefited
From Investments
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