Empowering Women Forest Defenders in Cambodia

For the past 6 months we have been supporting trained women from our Peacebuilding and Conflict Transmation Training. The women were encourage to work with men in thier communituy to raise awareness of the important of raising women voice in their community. So trained women were able to work together to mobilize their communities members and local authorities to participate in Children Celebration Day. These are new expereince for their life time to be able learn and eneaged in their community issues on children protection and raising good children. The women will be doing more community enegagement on diffrent events that will help raise awareness and respond the community problems.   

Links:

• Children Celebration Coordinated by Trained Women
• Children Celebration Coordinated by Trained Women

For the past 12 months, Peace Bridges Organization (PBO) has been encouraing small groups of woman from Phnom Pehn and natrual resources protection ares from Prey Lang and Preahrokar Forest covered four provinces inclide Kampong Thom, Preah Vihea, Stung Treng and Kratie to come together and discuss ways or what they can do to raise their voice in their family and community. Many of these communties are ethinc minoroty where women are not only marginalised but suffer a lot by violence in home. These woman groups innitiated different community events where they enage with men and local authoties to raise their voice and participation and decision making in their communties and natrual resources protection effort. The community events include celebration of internaltion woman right day, fish release, Children's Right Day, and strategic plan meeting for their ongoing capacity building and community enegagement.        

Links:

• Celebration of International Women Right Day
• Women Coaching for Community Initiatives