I-SYI broadens reach to district Coronie and Marowijne.
I-Syi means DID YOU SEE in Surinamese Language.
One of the objectives of the I-Syi Empowering Girls Project is to broaden the reach of the project; started in Paramaribo in October last year, the project team has now reached out to participants in two other districts: Coronie and Marowijne.
In the weekend of 18-19 March 2023, the I-Syi project team launched the project in:
1. Totness, the capital of the District Coronie, 122 km west from Paramaribo, and
2. Moengo, the capital of the District Marowijne, 108 km east from Paramaribo
18 girls and young women received the basic training to sew the re-usable shopper bag and all are very enthusiastic to continue learning and when ready, participate in the production stream of I-Syi bags.
With this roll-out the minimum target of 45 participants has now been reached. In Paramaribo a total of 27 girls have been trained and as per end of March will have produced more than 1,000 bags.
We are very proud to mention that one of the participants (from Moengo) who started with the cohort in Paramaribo, has been trained and is now ready to coordinate the group of participants in Moengo.
The next step in the project is to identify those participants who are ready to continue with the production from their home-base enabling them to produce more and in doing so, gradually prepare them for being their own entrepreneur, with support from the I-Syi trainer now from a distance.
Simultaneously preparations for the next phase of the project are being initiated, which is the training and production of the re-usable cotton sanitary pads, which is planned to start in May 2023.
The I-Syi team and participants are highly motivated to reach the next milestones.
