WAVE (Women After Visiting Each other)
Example: Walk us through a specific example(s) of how this solution makes a difference; include its primary activities.
Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem outlined here? How does the proposed project differ from these approaches?
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Mortazavi
The Impact of WAVE is not only on working women lives and solving their common problems in workplace by local solutions, but also it could be a warning for the women who want to choose their workplace, and an awareness as well, for the ones who always have been thinking that workplace problems are unavoidable and unsolvable for women and there would be no trust to them.
Definitely talking to successful women who have fought against problems and approved themselves in workplaces are an encouragement for other women.
Anyhow, by discussion, women-friendly workplaces and discriminator ones would be manifested, so it could be an alert for many managers and company owners too.
The most important barrier might be not being welcomed by women. To overcome this, prevailing advertising for WAVE in woman websites and magazines could be helpful. Also, in first stages we can award the best solutions or the most active users of the forum.
Although the first language for WAVE is Farsi and it could be usable for Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, but Arabic could be added, to make it useful for Arab nations in MENA, because the challenge is the same in the region, however problems faced by women in workplaces could be just solved in a local context.
For financial sustainability i do not rely on membership fee. I prefer to have a free virtual space for discussion, because it is not fair to expect women not working to pay, and also it is not rational to expect working women to pay for expressing their problems or solutions.
So the best resource could be advertising related businesses like lawyers, family consultants and so on.
The project needs little budget, but for its advertisement.
Once I was talking to my spouse (who is the other member of the team) about the problems women faced in workplaces, and especially my friends' problems. I told to my spouse about the simple solutions I had given to them, based on my experiences. My husband suggest me to establish a blog or a website to write up my experiences. After some discussions we came to this conclusion that establishing an internet forum could be better, because there are so many women with better solutions which could be shared.
There is no partnership pattern yet,
Providing practical education or resources along with your main project, such as financial literacy, family planning, day-care, counseling, and more