Once wars or conflicts are overcome, it is often women who bear the main responsibility for reconstruction. They not only have to live with the traumatic experiences of sexualised violence in war, but also have to cope with other burdensome consequences of the war: deaths of family members, loss of property and work, often also loss of a place called home.
Women who have lost their husbands in the war are suddenly faced with having sole responsibility for themselves and their children. Without a male head of the family, they are often condemned to a life in isolation and poverty. Unmarried women, widows or single mothers are often faced with discrimination and hostility in many patriarchal societies even today. Many are denied a self-determined life.
medica mondiale supports the women with measures promoting gainful employment, for that they can secure their own livelihood and shape their own future in a self-determined manner.
