Women Initiatives Network (WIN)

W.I.N is a training institute that organizes intensive short term job training for women economic empowerment. Training includes welfare-to-work programs, ex- offenders re-entry into the workforce, run-away teens and other similar populations into good paying jobs and providing the resources to those who want to establish innovative small scale businesses.

Transcontinental Education’s interest in women’s development and advancement spans over a decade. The organization has worked with women’s groups in both church and secular settings. Training and empowering women to break off any limitations that society may have placed on them.

Traditionally, women encounter recurring social issues such as poverty, violence, reproductive concerns, lack of education, sexual abuse and susceptibility to diseases among others. The struggle for justice is larger than any one group, individual, or social movement. It certainly transcends any one organization. Social injustice is a collective problem that requires a collective solution.

Here at WIN, we believe that women who are trained at this center will go through different phases of transformation and sometimes these changes will happen in “commonplace and frequently unnoticed ways that people rise above their loneliness and fear as “ordinary resurrections”. We lie down. We all rise up. We do this every day (Kozol, 2000, p.108). Like a partly opened flower with the passing of each day through our seminars, workshops, mentoring relationships, and interaction with members of our community, many women blossom to contribute meaningfully to society.

PROGRAMS

Seminars, short courses, workshops and counseling sessions that range from some few hours a day, to, in some cases up to six weeks per session. Training are conducted every quarter of the year both at our premises and at different locations where we take the training to our clients communities and cities.

PERSONNEL RESOURCES

The training sessions are facilitated by resource persons from neighboring universities business centers, Small Business Administration personnel and business men and women who are experts in their field, clinical psychologists and other health personnel.