SIA Grant Impact Project

"Empowering Teenage Mothers for the SDG-FACES"

(Sustainable Development Goals – Family-based Action for Children and Their Environs in the Slums

SI Mandaluyong in partnership with the City Government in the implementation of its program Sustainable Development Goals – Family-based Actions for Children and their Environs in the Slums (SDG-FACES).  The program is targeting the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals among 40 children belonging to women-headed households as pilot beneficiaries. The city is prioritizing children whose mothers are still in their teenage years.  SI Mandaluyong shall focus on these teenage moms with the goal of empowering each one with the necessary basic skills to adapt to and be an active partner in the attainment of both mom’s and child’s SDGs.

At least 200 women including 40 teenage mothers, their mothers and other women in Barangay Addition Hills, a club adopted Barangay, this program has the following objectives: 1.)To educate women and teenage mothers on the various child- and women-focused SDG indicators and how they can benefit and at the same time contribute to the attainment of the SDGs;  2.) To increase awareness of responsible parenting  and 4.) To develop entrepreneurs among unemployed mothers 5.) To transform these women into active community partners of SI Mandaluyong in advocating for women empowerment 3.) To encourage returning to school even as a working mother.