WORTH's Work

The mission of Pact's WORTH program is to give poor women in communities around the world the opportunity to discover their inherent power to change their lives by using new tools and training to develop successful microenterprise ventures — including managing village banks — as well as skills in reading, writing and basic financial literacy.

In their hearts women have a vision of how their stories could be different...where there is income enough to feed their families...HIV/AIDS and other diseases do not take away their husbands and children...and their daughters have access to education and promising futures.

Given literacy, and income they can count on and group support, women come to see themselves differently. When the vision of each woman is pooled with the vision of others, the group generates energy which serves to forge real change in their lives and in the lives of their families and communities.