About
Overview
Promoting diversity and empowering young underprivileged women.
Building Women is a dynamic and forward-thinking social initiative committed to reshaping the landscape of the construction industry in Nigeria by promoting diversity and empowering young underprivileged women. Founded on the belief that every individual, regardless of gender or background, deserves equal opportunities, Building Women aims to break down barriers and create a more inclusive workforce within the construction sector.
Young women constitute the largest single source of unskilled construction labourers yet they are not truly represented on construction sites; a traditionally male dominated, and closed to women sector of the economy.
Presently on building sites, you rarely find women working and where they work at all it is at the end of the workforce engaged with unskilled components; carriers of sand, gravel, fetching water and other menial tasks, while the men populate the skilled work component.
Currently, on construction sites, the presence of women is a rare sight. When women do participate, they are often relegated to the lower echelons of the workforce, typically handling unskilled tasks such as carrying sand and gravel, fetching water, and other menial tasks.
Building Women aims to empower young women to enter the construction market both as unskilled and skilled workers thus providing relevant opportunities to increase their income and daily livelihood.
Main Activities
- To identify, source, vet and register young women trainees through outreaches in underprivileged areas, religious bodies, women organizations, NGO’s and schools
- To partner with private sector construction industry players and vocational centers to provide on the job and vocational training in masonry, joinery, electrical, plumbing, roofing, welding and other construction skills
- To match trainees with employment on sites of leading construction companies
Target Demographic
Underprivileged, low-income/unemployed young women in Lagos State, between the ages of 15-35 years.
Skills Training
For the moment, we are focusing on skills that do not require any formal education level. The skills range as follows:
Road and Drain Maintenance and Cleaning
Sand and Stone Base Laying
Road brick laying
Painting
Brick laying
Screeding
Labourer training
Nursery Establishment and Garden Maintenance
Machinery and Equipment Operation
Process
Sourcing and Matching
- Girls identified and sourced through BW channels.
- Initial Vetting and registration
- Matching with a funding source
- Matched with a training partner
Funding
- BW Direct Funding or
- Direct Donor matching or
- Trained and paid by Training Partner
Deployment
- Placement with a training partner for two(2) years of training.
Graduation
- Certification from a training partner and
- Certification from Building Women
Employment
- With Training Partner
- With othercompany
- Self Employment
