ABOUT US

About Us

Empowering women and girls can be Your Next Great Achievement. By supporting Hope and Dreams Initiative a women led organization, you’ll help to create a future for self-sufficiency, end period poverty, prevent gender-based violence, and promote gender equality through our safe space initiative.

HDI envision an equitable world where every girl and woman feel supported and empowered to reach her full potential. Our mission is to promote gender equality where every adolescent girl and young woman is empowered through literacy, comprehensive health, and sexuality education. We do this by ensuring marginalized girls and young women that have experienced SGBV are empowered through our Safe Spaces, which provides treatment, support and empowerment (through literacy and life skill) to enable them to tell their stories, connect to other girls with similar experiences, amplify their voices in seeking an end to SGBV

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Key approaches

HDI takes a holistic approach to addressing GBV.

  • Prevention

    We work with women, men, adolescents and youth, girls, boys, communities, and local schools to transform harmful gender norms and attitudes that perpetuate GBV, and promote healthy, equitable and non-violent relationships.

  • Risk mitigation

    HDI ensures that our projects take steps to reduce the risk of GBV and address disclosures of GBV appropriately. This means being deliberate about reducing risks, raising awareness, and linking survivors to services—no matter what the program, whether it’s food security, water, education, or health. HDI aims to ensure that women, girls, and marginalized groups are safe, respected and valued.

  • Response

    HDI provides services to GBV survivors directly and through partners: first-line support (empathetic counseling, safety planning, and referrals), health HDI (clinical management of rape and sexual and reproductive health and rights), legal support, psycho-social support, economic opportunities, and referral system strengthening.

  • Advocacy

    We work to develop and strengthen the passage and implementation of policies, laws, and systems that prevent GBV and uphold survivors’ rights.

  • Integrating GBV across ALL our programs

    As well as programs focused entirely on GBV through explicit risk mitigation, prevention, response or advocacy interventions, HDI aims to integrate attention to GBV across all of our projects.

  • Highlighted Programs Fighting Gender-Based Violence Inter-generational Dialogue

    To shift social norms and support men and boys as allies for gender equality, so as to advance respect for women and reject violence in their families and the broader community.

Our Vision

Ensuring a society where young people, especially girls, are educated and transformed with academic support, life skills training, livelihood, skill development, and opportunity creation.

Our Mission

Our mission is to promote gender equality so every adolescent girl and young woman are empowered, healthy, safe, and informed decision-making through Literacy, comprehensive health, and sexuality education.

Our Partners

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