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eSwatini: Nqobile Nkambule


Date: March 6, 2020

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Name NQOBILE VALENCIA
Surname NKAMBULE
Country Swaziland
Give a short history of the leader I realized that I was a real leader when I started working in my community as a volunteer training people on disease prevention , community development and how to manage their finances and also do small income generating projects for the sustainability of local community people, this all started when I saw a great need of unemployment, poverty and HIV/AIDS which left a lot of orphans whose parents were killed by AIDS at that time people had no education on HIV/AIDS they thought it was witchcraft
Objectives To train, empower, equip community members to obtain knowledge and be free from preventable diseases and eventually rise out of poverty and enjoy a self sustainable life
Key activities My work is to do door to door home visits making relations with families observing their challenges and how we can go about helping each other in a way that will be long lasting and multiplying so they can also teach their neighbor to live a healthy life. The challenge was to teach or train men because they felt its a thing of women and to get them start the income generating projects because of funds
Key challenges The challenge was that we had to first train the community leaders and the gate keepers to make them understand the importance of gender equality so that once they get it that will make it easier for other men to listen to their leaders

Results
Change at the individual level It has made me a brave and strong person who can face any challenges without fear as long as it is for the good of the people, having meetings, community dialogues which includes all the members of the community, youth, elders
Evidence of change at the individual level The people education and training was powerful because some of the things they did wrong out of ignorance. Khetsiwe Ndzimandze
Change at the household level That was really helpful even to my children, husband and parents we are now sharing duties equally and respecting every member of the family without feeling that men are superior and we women are inferior
Evidence of change at the household level My daughter Khanyisa said she is now free and willing to also build houses and work on top of the roof she thought it was for boys only
Change at institutional level Khanyisile Shongwe is not able to voice out her thoughts without fear and Elliot Matsenjwa challenges the Chief when wrong decisions are made without the involvement of the community members
Evidence of change at institutional level Khanyisile Shongwe is not able to voice out her thoughts without fear and Elliot Matsenjwa challenges the Chief when wrong decisions are made without the involvement of the community members
Change at a policy level As we have held meeting with leaders, members of parliament, pastors we have had a lot of influence and debates that opened the minds of many to start advocating for change
Evidence of change at a policy level Pastor G. Myeni is now open to help and listen to all members of his church without discriminating women. Women and men are given same opportunities. Children have forums where they talk about issues pertaining them and how they want the communities involve them in every thing happening
Capacity building Leadership Training, Gender Equality, GBV , Business training by Gender links and SEDCO
Lessons learned and shared Being confident, knowing my rights, improving my business skill, finance management, duties of a leader
Next Steps To empower, Train, Equip more women and children


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