Programs

Cultural program

Cultural program main interest is adopting Projects and Initiatives aimed at establishing a promising generation of women and young girls by providing them with the necessary skills and training to enable them in the future to assume leadership positions and encourage them to engage in civil work and adopt societal issues that are in line with the goals of sustainable

 

Research Collaboration Community (ReCCo)

The first of its kind in the Middle East focused on women researchers & aims to advance female contribution from Kuwait in research

Through awareness and proactive initiative, the ReCCo project aims to promote gender equality in research and bridge the gap between international and local research standards. By consolidating our collective networks and facilitating knowledge exchange in one common place, we are able to expand the impact and reach of research projects by as well as possible collaborations. Our vision is to create a national point of contact for researchers, digitalize collaboration initiatives, and contribute to the achievement of sustainable development goals in Kuwait through knowledge exchange, interdisciplinary collaboration, and female empowerment in research.

ReCCo Goals –

  • Contribute to New Kuwait 2040 Vision by increasing scientific indexing
  • Enhancing research profiles and upgrading research skill set
  • Building resilience in research careers & empowering interested young females
  • Addressing & overcoming gender-related obstacles in academia
  • Highlighting the importance of mentorship & peer support
  • Creating networks for collaboration within and beyond

Commitment to SDG’s – Gender Equality (SDG 5), Quality Education (SDG 4), Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10)

 

Girls for Girls initiative

 Since November 2020, the girls’ initiative has been operating under the umbrella of the Women’s Social and Cultural Society, headed by a member of the association, Ms. Nabila Abu Hantash. It was a priori simplified, however, it was simplified. Kuwait is an Arabic-speaking country Courses are offered in a certain period of time, the course takes place for 6 weeks  (every Saturday) in the Society, for a small reduced fee, and the course is available to women.

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Girls’ Cultural Club

A club for girls was opened in the Women’s Cultural and Social Society in June 2021 and is active every summer season. It aims to establish a promising generation of girls and young ladies who believe in the ideas and goals of the Society to be the nucleus of the future, promoting in them a culture of civil and community work under the supervision of some of the council members. The management and members of the association, and the basic idea of ​​the club is based on alignment with the goals of sustainable development (the third goal: good health and well-being, the fourth goal: quality education, the fifth goal: gender equality, the tenth goal: reducing inequalities, and the seventeenth goal: a decade partnerships to achieve goals).

Club Goals:

– Enhancing self-confidence.
– Enhancing a sense of good citizenship and human identity.
– Gender Equality Belief in cooperation.
– Coexistence, and acceptance of others.
– Knowing their Rights and duties.
– Encouraging them to participate in all activities in Society.

The program aims to educate women about their civil rights and duties and empower them to develop their social and economic status through the establishment of various projects and campaigns that serve them.

 

Waracati  for Legal Empowerment of Women

It is one of the most important legal awareness projects in the State of Kuwait. It aims to legally empower women and girls in the State of Kuwait by raising their legal awareness and introducing them to all their rights stipulated in the Constitution and legislation of the State of Kuwait and in accordance with its international commitments through a free website that provides information and legal studies in both Arabic and English, on the following topics:

1- Women’s rights in the family and marriage.
2- Women’s rights to citizenship, nationality and political participation
3- Protecting women from violence
4- Promoting women’s economic rights (economic empowerment)

 

 

Violence Against women

Since Kuwait has ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) since 1994, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women emanating from this Convention at the United Nations recommended the adoption of the shelter mechanism. Which has been activated in a number of Arab and Gulf countries such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and others.

The Women’s Social Cultural Association has initiated the preparation of a specialized legal human rights study on the philosophy of listening centers and shelters to protect women and girls from gender-based violence, and a draft special law on the mechanism for receiving these shelter centers for women and children victims of violence, to fill this legislative and social vacuum, and to provide a mechanism Effective to protect battered women, support their independence, and enhance their own capacities to reintegrate them into society. Work on the project began in January 2016 and ended in June 2017, with the support and funding of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, based on the Foundation’s mission to support and motivate everything that contributes to developing and strengthening the cultural environment of the community.

On October 17, 2017, the study was announced in a symposium held at the association’s headquarters entitled “The Philosophy of Listening Centers and Shelters in the State of Kuwait,” which was prepared by a team of legal researchers on the possibility of establishing listening centers and shelters in the State of Kuwait.

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Equity of Kuwaiti Women Married to a Non-Kuwaiti

The campaign for fairness of citizenship for women married to non-Kuwaitis was launched in 2014 to unify the efforts of civil society to provide fairness to this group of female citizens and to empower them with their basic rights stipulated in the Constitution of the State of Kuwait. The campaign aims to research and study the conditions of citizenship and her family who do not hold Kuwaiti citizenship, as justice for her has become an issue that cannot be delayed in order for her to enjoy psychological stability and social balance and to live with dignity in her homeland. The campaign includes 10 Kuwaiti NGOs, including Women’s Cultural & social society, and two volunteer groups.

 

 

 

The Society is particularly interested in women’s health and is keen, through its program, to raise the level of health and preventive awareness in the community by organizing seminars, workshops and local forums in cooperation with the entities in charge of the Cultural Program in the Society.
The Health Program also contributes to providing moral support to cancer patient at Al Amal Club, Kuwait Center for Specialized Surgery, in addition to providing therapeutic health aids and medical devices to needy non Kuwaiti patients residing in the state.

 

 

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