#SkillsToEmpower focuses on learning and skills that support informed choices and pathways into dignified work.
Why this programme
Women are better able to take part in education, work and community life when barriers to both bodily and economic dignity are addressed together.
#SkillsToEmpower draws on Selyn’s experience employing and supporting women in production roles. It aims to turn that experience into a structured pathway to dignified work for women and young people who are often left out.
What we do
A structured skills development and employment-readiness programme.
Months of structured training
Women in the first cohort
Planned first phase
Pre-programme skills assessment, so training starts where each participant is.
Machine operation and production skills, including making sustainable menstrual care products.
Exposure to real production environments, under qualified supervision with safety induction and protective equipment.
Mentoring, workplace readiness support and certification.
Pathways to employment opportunities within the Selyn ecosystem, for those who complete the programme.
Our role
The Foundation designs and runs the programme, provides facilities, mentoring and staff time, and follows up on outcomes.
Safeguarding measures apply, including a designated focal point and referral routes to external support.
Progress and learning
No outcome results are available yet.
We will record, for each participant:
About recruitment, retention and participation of underserved groups.
That learning will shape a possible larger community-based training and employment centre. Results will be published with reporting periods.
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