Positive Women is the coming together of The Children of Swaziland and Swaziland Positive Women, two established and successful charities already in operation. The founders of these charities -- Siphiwe Hlophe and Kathryn Llewellyn – saw huge potential to develop the work that both organisations undertake, so pioneered Positive Women as an innovative and forward-thinking project that reaches all eight of the Millennium Development Goals.
Our work focuses on supporting women to change their own lives and circumstances. We support them and their families in projects that will help allievate poverty and make significant social change. Through education of their children and HIV/Aids orphans, through women-led income generation projects and through our legal work, Positive Women is helping the women of Swaziland and their families secure their basic needs, and empower them to secure a different, better future.
Positive Women has reached some of the poorest communities in Swaziland and has already had significant and far-reaching impact on the lives of thousands of women and children. Our achievements include:
- Giving 450 orphans and vulnerable children access to education
- Supplying 450 orphans and vulnerable children with memory books
- Begun funding women-led income generation projects
- Taking 5 cases to court and educated 500 women in their basic legal rights