Archive for June 2011
We Are Hiring at Sughar, AGAIN!
Greetings Everyone!
We are now looking for a female staff member for Sughar with awesome mobilization skills, business knowledge, sociological background and Market understanding for the post of a female Community Mobilizer for Sughar Women Program initiatives in Sughar Office Karachi with frequent visits to Thatta, District in Sindh, Pakistan.
Following are the main qualities we are looking in our coming team member:
- Is able to Speak Sindhi*
- Have basic skills in social mobilization and interaction with local communities.
- Have basic understanding of the markets and designing
- Can write good case studies and reports in English
- Is aware about usage of internet and can use it for better communication
- Is mobile enough and able to travel long hours
What are the benefits for this role? Well, let us share the biggest benefit as its got a lot more!
"You would become a part of the great team that is dedicated to shift the paradigms of tribal societies regarding the status of women and to give as much as power to women in that area that she is able to know, choose and decide her own rights and to enable her to become an entrepreneur using her traditional skills!"
The deadline to apply as a Female Community Mobilizer at Sughar is 25th June 2011, so send us your CV and application letter to sugharwomen@gmail.com as soon as possible.
Looking forward to receive your applications!
Sughar Team
We are now looking for a female staff member for Sughar with awesome mobilization skills, business knowledge, sociological background and Market understanding for the post of a female Community Mobilizer for Sughar Women Program initiatives in Sughar Office Karachi with frequent visits to Thatta, District in Sindh, Pakistan.
Following are the main qualities we are looking in our coming team member:
- Is able to Speak Sindhi*
- Have basic skills in social mobilization and interaction with local communities.
- Have basic understanding of the markets and designing
- Can write good case studies and reports in English
- Is aware about usage of internet and can use it for better communication
- Is mobile enough and able to travel long hours
What are the benefits for this role? Well, let us share the biggest benefit as its got a lot more!
"You would become a part of the great team that is dedicated to shift the paradigms of tribal societies regarding the status of women and to give as much as power to women in that area that she is able to know, choose and decide her own rights and to enable her to become an entrepreneur using her traditional skills!"
The deadline to apply as a Female Community Mobilizer at Sughar is 25th June 2011, so send us your CV and application letter to sugharwomen@gmail.com as soon as possible.
Looking forward to receive your applications!
Sughar Team
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Sughar Market Research Update: Mercado Global
During our current Market Research we are coming across some of the most inspiring inititaives in Pakistan and around the world and are inspired and literally energized by their great work! Mercado Global is one of those innovative initiatives that we are pleased to write about:
About Mercado Global:
Mercado Global is a nonprofit whose distinctive Fair Trade collections demonstrate the power of partnership to change the world, one purchase at a time.
Each Mercado collection starts with a journey to the highlands of Guatemala, where designers partner with indigenous women artisans to develop unique creations that fuse exceptional Mayan craftsmanship with modern design. Our model helps mothers in Mercado’s partner communities break the cycle of poverty and send their children to school.
Basic Approach:
Mercado Global’s successful model is based on building partnerships. In Guatemala, we partner with indigenous women’s artisan cooperatives and provide them with access to the U.S. market, training in business skills that prepare them to successfully sell to major U.S. retailers, and assistance to invest in technology that increases their capacity to produce and sell their goods. In the U.S., we partner with major companies and provide them a means to source socially responsible products directly from rural Guatemalan artisans. Additionally, we build partnerships with individuals who invest their time, money, and resources in furthering our mission.
Through these partnerships, we are ensuring that mothers in rural communities have the income they need to send their children to school and break the cycle of local poverty. Our model has been recognized for its innovation and success – Newsweek magazine has featured our co-founders on its cover and we are a past recipient of the Innovation in Social Enterprise Award from the Social Enterprise Alliance.
The Impact:
Our programs are helping to build cooperatives in communities that have previously been exploited by middlemen who pay unfair wages that keep women and families in poverty. We are connecting women artisans to sales opportunities that provide a fair and sustainable income so that they can send lift their families out of the cycle of poverty.
Our programs are also building up women as leaders in their homes and communities.
- Our partner artisans are more actively participating in leadership roles in their communities – an increase of 22% from 2008 to 2009.
- The percentage of artisans reporting that they participate in financial decision making and money management in their households has increased nearly 40% from before they partnered with us.
Impact – Increasing Access to Education
Mercado Global’s sales opportunities are helping mothers send their children to school, an opportunity many of them did not have growing up. Our partner artisans have, on average, less than 3 years of formal education. However, through a combination of increased income for local mothers and direct Mercado Global scholarships, 100% of elementary school-aged children of our original partner artisans are enrolled in school for the third consecutive year.
Studies show that putting a dollar into the hands of a woman in the developing world is the best way to ensure that this dollar gets to her children, and that it’s invested in their education. And by educating these children, we ensure that they can go on to strengthen and contribute to the local economy and in turn provide an even brighter future for their own children.
Impact – Improving Health & Well-Being
Mercado Global is ensuring mothers have the income opportunities they need to provide nutritional foods and healthy homes for their families. In a country where the health and nutrition rates for rural indigenous people are extremely dire – 50% or rural Guatemalans lack access to electricity, 28% lack access to potable water, and 67% of children suffer from chronic malnutrition – Mercado Global partner artisans and their families are experiencing unprecedented health and nutritional rates. Nearly 100% or our partner artisans report having access to electricity and potable water, and a vast majority have been able to install paved floors in their homes (as opposed to dirt floors) which decreases their susceptibility to disease.
There is More! Read more about the fabulous work of Mercado Global here at their website: http://mercadoglobal.org/
Bringing Sughar to Sindh!
We are excited like ever! After the great experiences in Balochistan and taking different shapes and changing lives while moving to refinement, Sughar has now come to Sindh! Thanks to our partner International Labour Organization (ILO) we We are now becoming a part of the lives of women in Sindh, understand them from their own minds and souls and to seek solutions all together with them because we know THEY are the best activists and entrepreneurs that anyone can come across to! Following is a glimpse at what we have been upto the past month, where from baseline to introduction and mobilization and finally identification of our 10 villages comes into shape!
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