Awareness Campaign Promotes Water Rights and Gender Equality in Seven Women Cooperatives in Kamonyi District.

A transformative awareness campaign is currently engaging participants across seven cooperatives, focusing on the right to clean water and the importance of gender equality in domestic responsibilities. The undertake, titled Raising Awareness Sessions About the Right to Water and Domestic Roles, is bringing together a total of 170 participants.

The program targets two key groups: cooperative members and young mothers who are not cooperative members. Seventy young mothers, with 10 from each cooperative, are participating alongside 100 cooperative members. Five cooperatives are hosting sessions for 24 participants each, while two larger cooperatives are accommodating 25 participants each.

Participants receiving the training

The sessions educate participants on the universal right to clean water while encouraging all family members to share domestic responsibilities equally, regardless of gender. ARDE/KUBAHO emphasize that such collaboration within households eases the burden on individuals and accelerates family development.

By reaching diverse participants, the campaign is already creating a ripple effect of awareness and behavioral change within the community, contributing to sustainable development and improved livelihoods.

This implemented by ARDE/KUBAHO in partnership with Medicus Mundi though the phase 2 of the project entitled ‘‘TUBEHO NEZA‘‘

Participants posing for a photo after the training

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