WOMEN SELF HELP DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION (WSHDO)

The group women wishing the under-secretary during the exhibition day.

WOMEN SELF HELP DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION (WSHDO)
Women self help development organization is a community based organization (CBO) established in 1975 in Yambio and moved to Yei and finally to Juba in 1992. it works with the grass roots women on self help basis. It was established as combined effort of women in Equatoria State. Today, it has members of 500 operational in 34 counties and villeges (rural areas) in Southern Sudan Juba. There are about 314 self help community development groups in existent.

TRAINING AND VISION
They have five units, community development as their way of spreading and the rest are health, nutrition, agriculture, agro-forestry and microfinance, training the women for 5 months.
The vision they have for attainment of their goal is to empowered women in Southern Sudan. The mission statement or the motto of the WSDHDO is their existence to promote the well-being of grass-root women of Southern Sudan for self reliance in every aspect of life.

OBJECTIVES• Mobilization and organization of women at grass-root level for community development.
• Enhancing the capability of the grass-root women to manage their resources within their reach.
• Enhancing self help and self reliance, cooperation among the women.
• Raising the esteem of women as leaders in the society.
• Lobbying on violence against women
• Working for transformation and socialization process in order to re-orient women towards issues of development.

ACTIVITIES
1. Raising awareness on gender balance, equity and child right
2. Adult education to reduce illiteracy of women in Southern Sudan
3. Leadership and skills training for better development of women
4. Environment protection and conservation through agriculture and agro-Forestry activities
5. Raising awareness among women about public health, HIV/AIDs and nutrition both in the family and the community.
6. Training women in basic skills of food processing