When enrolled in the Sponsorship Program, Project Independence will provide rights awareness and job skills training programs to 1200 women through the Renewing Women’s Life Skills (ReneWLS) Program. Women will attend bi-weekly sessions in small groups to raise awareness about their rights, politics, family issues, health care and to cultivate leadership skills. Through these sessions, women form a support system for one another to fill the void created by years of conflict and oppression, enabling them to lean on each other and create a mechanism for progress in their lives and communities.

Women will also have the opportunity to receive job skills training. Training classes in traditional and non-traditional skills build on and strengthen existing skills and help women master new trades such as carpentry, upholstery, shoe repair and candle-making. Skills offered are designed to give women concrete options for income generating opportunities in their local economy.