Stah Jabeur, zone Elghdir
5000 Monastir
Tunisia
- Gender
Association Voix de l’Enfant Monastir (VEM) was founded on January 11th, 2007. It consists of a • “unit of life” which permanently hosts babies with no family support, aged from 0 to 18 months. Since its establishment, VEM has welcomed and supported about 350 babies, We employ a dozen childminders as well as a manager and a cleaning lady for the unit of life. • “social center” which was established in 2015 with the support of the Swiss foundation "Drosos" (March 2015-March 2020) and has been taking care of mothers in a situation of difficulty, through a professional training combined with a social and psychological support. From its creation to the present day, VEM has been able to help around 380 women in precarious situations. For this service we employ around twenty people between administrative staff and staff for the various workshops. In addition to the main donor Drosos, VEM was able to consolidate its social entrepreneurship project with other organizations such as Unicef and ACT.
Our mission is to empower mono-parental families and to improve access to professional training and employment for young unmarried mothers and women victims of violence to lead a dignified life.
The main activities planned for women are: • Psychological and medical support, development of self-esteem and personal skills. • Literacy, sex education, social and legal counseling program. • Various professional training in situ and outside. Several training workshops have been set up: horticulture, laundry (for hotels, hospitals and catering), clothing, embroidery and pastry.
Propose new ideas and projects, share our experiences as associations working in the context of gender equality and the field of childhood.
Our aim is to broaden the circle of partners to work with them around common objectives (childhood field, social and economic reconstruction of women in vulnerable situations, psychological support, etc) . We would like also to share our long experience with other associations working in the field of childhood and women .