INCOME GENERATION AND LIVELIHOOD UPDATES

Assessment of WEAVE’s Income Generating Initiatives

WEAVE facilitated an assessment of its women’s economic empowerment program in the 3 refugee camps on the Thai-Burma borders.   Among the focus of the assessment included, finding out the impact of WEAVE’s Income Generation activities on well-being as well their level of dependence on camp ration, whether they are fully, partly or dependent only on the ration. Response from the women shows that they are neither fully or partly dependent on camp ration.  But they admitted that they could not yet survive without the ration.

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