Community action Programs and Empowering Female Breadwinners in The Local Community

Document Type : Empirical Articles

Authors

1 Faculty of Social Work, Helwan University

2 Community organization, Helwan University,Faculty of Social Work,Cairo,Egypt

Abstract

This study describes the programs and roles of NGOs responsible for empowering women breadwinners in the local community, through the programs they provide, whether those programs are social, economic, health, educational, rehabilitative, or educational, or the roles of NGOs The governmental role in providing these programs, which can be identified in a set of coordination, planning, developmental, supportive and defensive roles that work on empowering women breadwinners and activating their role in the local community. A set of general results and suggestions have been reached, stemming from the current pilot study, which contribute to activating the empowerment programs for female breadwinners in the local community.

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