Hiiraan Online
Sunday, March 27, 2016
MOGADISHU (HOL)-After almost months of consultation with different young women at universities in Mogadishu on the need to break the barriers and challenges faced by them in the wider Somali community, SUYWA was the outcome of the final consultation meeting on special session with university's young women training held at SOMTA Venue facilitated by SWSC on 26th-27th Sep 2015.
This resulted the young marginalized women student to come up with the formation of Somali Universities Young Women Association (SUYWA) as a tool to fight for their rights and to stop the setbacks resulted by luck of unity among the young women in universities, good leadership and role model for them, unnecessary public abuse, intimidations, humiliation, raping and gross human right violation coupled with this, the unfair unequal employment opportunity with boys in both private and public centers.
Under this initiative, SUYWA has clear strategies and operational policies on how it conducts its affairs and interventions covering needs and supports required by young women in universities. The organization works at grassroots level to enhance the capacity of young women universities to respond to their basic needs and advocates for their plights to elicit actions on their needs and interests in the international arena.
It is for this reason that SUYWA has put together a number of young women in the universities who have the skills and professions to consolidate its institutional capability in delivering effective services to themselves and collaborating as an implementing agency and information-sharing partner.
The organization designs and implements its projects through participatory development model in order to empower young women in universities in addition to meeting their needs.