Introduction
Women face many injustices and inequalities globally, both in terms of economic factors and human rights. An often overlooked aspect of this phenomenon is their health. For example, the World Health Organization points out that “maternal mortality has barely changed since 1990.”This fact points to the great need for a specific focus on women’s health issues. For this reason, when the members of the Women and Health Task force (Women Saver Foundation) Management Committee sat down to discuss creation of a Women Saver Foundation Conference, they knew it was a crucial matter.
Basic goal of Women Saver Foundation is to help underprivileged women and children – make them stand on their feet – and have respectable lives. Foundation is committed to working in following major fields to empower the role of disadvantaged women and children:
Eradication of Poverty, Hunger and Homelessness
These issues are interrelated. Nearly 39 percent of Pakistanis live in multidimensional poverty, with the highest rates of poverty in F.A.T.A. and Balochistan. In Pakistan, progress across different regions of is uneven. Urban area poverty is 9.3 percent as compared to 54.6 percent in rural areas. Provinces also suffer from disparities.
Being a poor woman causes social exclusion. The system of family hierarchy and relationships is such that women are usually excluded from owning public assets. They do not enjoy decision-making powers. Mostly, women of rural and urban areas live in domestic space and their area of functioning is related to fulfillment of family needs.
Women Saver Foundation aims to empower women economically so they could fulfill their material needs, pull out of poverty and have appropriate shelter for living.
Balancing Gender inequalities
Gender inequalities in Pakistan are at their peak. Women suffer in terms of service access, human development, and participation in economic activities. Most of the time, they are not involved in decision-making. These lead to disadvantage for poor women and girls. It blocks families’ potential to generate income. Gender inequalities not only restrict women and girls capacity to participate in poverty alleviation initiative but they also hinders their ability to enhance their living conditions. Imbalance of rights and underprivileged socioeconomic status reduces women’s power to influence allocation of resources and decisions regarding investment at the domestic level.
Women Saver Foundation is working to balance gender inequalities. For this purpose, the Foundation has taken initiative for the economic growth and productivity of labour among poor women. The Foundation believes that through allocative efficiency of economy and investment in human capital (especially women education), poverty, gender inequalities, malnutrition and illness among women can be reduced.
Access to Education
For women and children, we have the vision of:
· providing the same conditions for access to education at all levels, both in urban and rural areas to women and children
· Providing the same quality of education; without any stereotyped concept regarding the roles of men and women
· Providing the same opportunities to benefit from study grants and other types of scholarships, continuing education, including programmes to literate women and children, and to encourage them for participation in sport and physical education
· Reducing female students drop-out rates
· Providing access to health education
· Providing advice on family planning
Health
Health of women is directly related to the health of families and nations. Healthy women have positive effects on the health of their children and families. Healthy women produce healthy children; and this leads to the entire family health. Healthy women can take care of health of whole family.
In this regard, we aim to provide women:
· Health awareness
· Safe environment
· Medical services
· Family Planning
· Health facilities of excellent qualities
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