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Contact
person: Ms. Samina F. Syed
Position: Director
Address: Rabbani
Center, Allah Waki Market,
House
4, Street 32, F-8/1, Islamabad,
Pakistan
Tel: (92-51)
850 465, 261 205
Fax:
Email: Samina
Background:
The
Working Women Association came into existence as a response to meet
the housing and other needs of young professional women of federal
capital. The Association established its first working women hostel
in 1975 on self help basis and organised first ever women mountaineering
expedition in 1978 with the help of Alpine club of Pakistan.
The Association got itself registered with Federal government of
Pakistan in 1987 as a non-profit social welfare organisation in
order to do contract researches for funds generation.
Association has come long way in its networking and other development
activities for girls and women. Currently it has its membership
spread in all the four provinces and enjoys the observer status
with UN Economics and Social Development division New Your. Its
main functions consist of networking, holding of workshops and conferences
and doing research on critical issues facing working women. It also
runs some projects of working girls Education and Skill Enhancement
besides working women hostels.
Aims and objectives:
- To
enhance the status of working women in the urban as well as rural
areas through recognition of their economic role.
- To
enhance the consciousness level and self-awareness amongst Pakistani
women in general and working women in particular.
- To
encourage women to take up job to raise the socioeconomic standard
of self, family and nation.
- To
undertake socio-cultural studies which determine and define the
role of women in national development.
- To
highlight the economic role of women relating to their participation
in household work, farm activities. Wages and employment in the
country.
Services:
- In
order to meet these objectives, the following services are provided
by the association.
- To
provide hostel and other support facilities to working women to
facilitate them in their job.
- To
hole seminars, lectures and workshops to raise the consciousness
level of women.
- To
carry out researches and exploratory studies on the needs of special
categories of women e.g. professional women, white collar.
- Workers
in public and private sectors and women with special needs.
- To
establish education and skill enhancement Center for girls and
women at grass roots.
- To
organise healthy recreational activities like mountaineering,
tracking, participation in national and international conferences.
A contingent of 25 women members of TWWA participated in Beijing
NGO Conference. Two members of TWWA participated in World Conference
as observers.
Research:
The Association has been undertaking research in following areas:
- The
data collection surveys and policy studies on development of women
and girls in urban and rural areas.
- The
attitude and impact surveys of special populations.
- Joint
Ventures with other consulting agencies in multinational projects
for social impact human resource development and environment.
- The
monitoring and evaluation studies of development projects
- The
studies to quantify the economic contribution of women relating
to their participation on household, farm activities, handicraft
and employment sector studies are carried out.
- Action
research to sensitise the society regarding the plight of rural
girls and women in domestic services.
Training:
The Association promotes and carries out training programs, which
prepare women for non-traditional occupations and there by expand
their job opportunities. Human resource development, environment,
income generation skills and teachers training programs are carried
out regularly.
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