Results: Private funding can enhance people’s skills and improve public policy
The results of WWC’s activities occur on multiple levels:
At the individual level, poverty and social exclusion are reduced through:
- Increased opportunities for women as a result of completing training and education programmes. Over a third of women who attended these programmes in 2004 have gone on to employment or further education. For many, WWC, provides women the opportunity to make the first step to return to learning.
- Enhanced child development through programmes that tackle behavioural, speech or language problems. Child care also enables women to take up courses at WWC. It costs £11,000 to recruit a childcare worker.
- Improved financial well-being through access to benefits as a result of information given by WWC’s advice centre.
At the community level, WWC plays a critical role in reducing conflict and tension between Protestant and Catholic communities by offering services to people of all backgrounds. Support for immigrant women helps them integrate into the community. Moreover, WWC is actively involved in local regeneration plans to enhance social and economic conditions in the community.
At the policy level, by proactively informing and commenting on policy, WWC ensures that the women and their families are high on the government agenda.
