Advancing solutions created by women, for women

The Problem:

For women across the Middle East, lack of education, peer support, and income often hinder their ability to help build a better future for themselves, their families, and their communities.

The Questscope Difference:

Questscope established and has strengthened women-led community organizations in two Jordanian towns, Zarqa (north of Amman) and Aqaba (in the South of Jordan).  Each center equips women with the tools they need to provide security and build a better future for themselves and their families.

The centers offer vocational training classes including tailoring, catering, and computer skills, and help girls develop their self-esteem while cultivating future business skills.  Graduates of specialized business management courses offered in the centers are matched with micro-loans from community-based credit funds, managed by other local women graduates of the program.

Offering girls and women supportive relationships and providing tools for success—like a basic education, business training, and access to capital—unleashes their potential, improves quality of life for them and their families, and produces other positive effects in their communities.

Results:

• The women’s centers that have been established in Zarqa and Aqaba, are now self-sustaining.  Over 1,800 women participated this year.
   
• Local women entrepreneurs have been trained to teach business skills and administer micro-loans to other women. And this year, eighteen women used the credit fund that was established to advance their small businesses.