Support skills training for Somali women

RTVTI was started in 2016 by Somali women at the grassroots. If your organization wants to help women in Somalia earn their own living, we'd like to hear from you.

Get in touch About RTVTI

A trainee in an RTVTI apron binding cloth for tie and dye

Tie and DyeBeauty and fashion course

Why support RTVTI

Somali women started it at the grassroots, for Somali women.
Every course is built around what local markets need.
RTVTI reports good relations with local government, including in Mogadishu and its districts.
It focuses on women who are neglected, marginalized or affected by conflict, in towns and rural areas.
It plans to open branches across the country and to build a regional and international network.

Trainees' work across RTVTI's trades: sewing, henna, tie and dye, soap making, tools and woven baskets

Community and awareness

Training is the main work, but not the only work. RTVTI speaks up for women's social and economic rights, and from time to time runs awareness sessions on reproductive health, including child spacing, and on the harm Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) does to women's health.

A hall full of women in colourful headscarves, seated together for a session

Work a partner can join

Three of our objectives are work a partner can join directly.

Objective 2
Events
Organize events that make the case for women's social, economic and political rights.
Objective 3
Consultative forums
Organize, prepare for and take part in consultative forums on skills training.
Objective 4
Regional and international network
Build a regional and international network that works for the economic empowerment of Somali women.