Be empowered

  “Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself ” Before talking about the women and youth empowerment, firstly we have to understand, what is the meaning of empowerment. Empowerment: what is it? Empowerment is a multi-dimensional social process that helps people gain control over their own lives. It is a process that fosters power in people for use in their own lives, their communities and in their society, by acting on issues they define as important. Moreover, empowerment is a process that challenges our assumptions about the way things are and can be. It challenges our basic assumptions about power, helping, achieving, and succeeding. To demystify the concept of empowerment, we need to understand the concept broadly, in order to be clear about how and why we narrow our focus of empowerment for specific programs and projects. At the core of the concept of empowerment is the idea of power. The possibility of empowerment dep