Leadership Training for women

our organisation works in partnership with a number of Coaches and Mentors who provide transformational leadership training for women. We believe that when women receive the right support at the right time, it can elevate their families and entire communities. For that reason we focus on providing leadership training to women who are ready to grow and flourish. If you are interested in this service - please get in touch.

Support for single parent women

our organisation encourages people to make a difference in the lives of single parent women who are really disadvantaged. This involves fundraising and donating to turn shelters into homes for single parent women who have very little financial support or employment prospects.

The average woman in Bangladesh with no education, is limited to an earning capacity of 2,000 (£18) to 3,000 BDT (£26) per month, yet it could cost 8,000 BDT to maintain a household of 3. Such is the life of Beauty Begum and her two teenage daughters who live in a makeshift shelter, with Beauty as the only breadwinner, struggling to support her daughters' education. They rely heavily on donations.

An average 3 bedroom house in Bangladesh can cost £20k - £25k to build, if the land is already owned. However, in 2017 after discovering that a sustainable house to last 25-30 years can be built with less than £2k, Parvin Karim and family built 4 houses between 2017 and 2018. In 2018, Parvin Karim began ‘Shelter to Home’ to provide adequate and safe housing for single women widows and divorcees in rural areas of Bangladesh. Following crowdfunding and with generous donations, we built homes for each of our poverty-stricken mothers; Roshanara and Mosoda. Prior to Shelter to Home, these women were either homeless or residing in makeshift shelters. Now, with homes built through the project, they can live with their children as a family.

In 2019 Parvin joined forces with 2 other British Bangladeshi women to build 2 more houses and form Stow Inspire CIC, which was officially registered in 2021. In September 2022 one of the Directors (Monwara Ali) and a team of 10 climbed Ben Nevis in Scotland and raised £2,800 for the Shelter to Home project. Beauty Begum and her daughters now have a home and are living a life of dignity. We were also able to contribute towards the rebuilding of a home for 102 year old Amina and her daughter Fadibun. The kind donations and our support has impacted and transformed the lives of 5 more women for the better.