13 March, 2023

Atlas Insurance Funds FIDEM Foundation’s Skill Up Project For The Empowerment Of Women Through Education


The Skill Up Project aims to help women boost their employment and career opportunities through several courses

Atlas Insurance, through its Community Involvement Fund, is funding the Skill Up Project run by the FIDEM Foundation. The joint initiative was announced during FIDEM Foundation’s International Women’s Day conference on 8 March. Atlas Insurance will be investing Eur60,000 over two years in this project, which will also include the purchasing of IT equipment which will continue to be used by the programme well into the future.

The Skill Up Project aims to help women boost their employment and career opportunities through several courses designed to impart useful skills as well as to empower women to take the lead in improving their lives by developing and strengthening their self-confidence and belief in their abilities. These courses address subjects such as English language literacy, computer competencies and life skills. Participants in the project will be awarded recognised certification upon successfully completing individual courses, which eventually lead to a FIDEM Educate to Empower – Skill Up Certificate.
The FIDEM Foundation is a non-profit organisation set up in 2018 which provides support and empowerment opportunities to vulnerable people, particularly women, adolescent girls and children, across Malta and Gozo through life-changing access to education and wellbeing guidance.

The Atlas Insurance Community Involvement Fund was set up by Atlas Insurance to finance its Community Involvement Strategy. Skill Up project is one of three projects funded under this new programme in 2023.

Catherine Calleja, Executive Director and Company Secretary of Atlas Insurance, explained that: “Atlas developed a strategic approach to ensure that the money we give to the community is put to the best possible use. Through this fund, Atlas is focusing on the specific areas where Malta is falling short of its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Skill Up Project addresses the fifth SDG to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.”

She added that: “Empowerment through education is an effectively proven tool to help vulnerable people out of their predicament. The partnership with an experienced organisation such as the FIDEM Foundation in the Skill Up Project ensures that the needs of vulnerable women are specifically targeted and addressed in order to provide participants with the optimal means to successfully complete the courses and improve their quality of life through self-development and better employment opportunities.”

Dr Sabine Agius Cabourdin, FIDEM’s Founder said: “The right to education is a basic human right recognised by various legal instruments, notably the UNCHR and further enshrined in the Maltese Constitution. Education raises men and women out of poverty, levels inequalities and ensures sustainable development. Unfortunately, not all of us are on a level playing field and many do not have access to education even though the infrastructure is there.”

In cognisance of the difficulties faced by vulnerable women, this project also takes into account the obstacles that would prevent prospective attendees from joining and completing the programme. In this respect, transport and childcare services will be offered along with the provision of all material required to follow the courses.

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