PATHWAY 3
Women’s Economic Empowerment
When women gain income stability, savings, skills, and leadership opportunities, the benefits extend through households, schools, and the wider community.
Why This Pathway Matters
Economic resilience is not created by one-time assistance. It grows when women can learn marketable skills, build savings, access responsible capital, strengthen enterprises, and make decisions with greater financial confidence.
Program Evidence Snapshot
Since launching in 2020, Dago Threads of Hope has reached more than 120 women across seven cohorts through vocational tailoring, enterprise skills, and economic-empowerment support. Current 2026 monthly reports also document ongoing production, customer sales, and reported profit. Earlier program records provide more detailed outcome evidence, including 14 women who completed national tailoring examinations and received certification.
Earlier program documents capture particular stages of this growth rather than the full cumulative reach. A 2024–2025 proposal reports 15 trainees establishing their own shops, alongside 14 students in the then-current cohort and 100% retention for that cohort. Friends of Dago is consolidating the seven cohort rosters and alumni records so future reporting can distinguish participation, certification, enterprise launch, and current livelihood outcomes.
A separate Dago Dala Hera activity record documents an Enactus/Ryerson-linked microloan program that issued 40 microloans to 30 women entrepreneurs over a three-year period. These figures are presented as program-reported evidence and will continue to be reconciled through participant, alumni, savings, enterprise, and repayment records.
This pathway combines livelihoods with leadership, helping women and young mothers build greater stability for themselves and their families.
Community Leadership
Women’s groups, local trainers, savings associations, entrepreneurs, and community leaders shape the opportunities, peer support, and financial practices that make the pathway locally relevant.
Friends of Dago’s Role
Mobilize training resources, equipment, responsible capital, partnerships, reporting, and institutional support while keeping program direction rooted in women’s priorities.
Dago Threads of Hope
Women-led tailoring and livelihood training that develops practical skills and pathways toward income generation.
Savings & Access to Capital
Village Savings & Loan Associations and microloan activity that support disciplined saving, responsible borrowing, and locally rooted enterprise.
Financial Literacy & Enterprise
Financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and microenterprise development designed to strengthen household resilience and women’s leadership.
120+ women
Reached across seven cohorts since the program launched in 2020.
250 microloans
Distributed through the economic empowerment system.