That is extremely crucial, because when immigrant families arrive in a new country, typically it's the women who are left behind, as they have to take care of the children. We really take pride in focusing on and prioritizing that.
Many immigrant women have different levels of literacy and sometimes no literacy. We first decided to develop the customized programs for different levels of literacy and then different fields of education. Some are even just on cooking. We will have customized modules for those kinds of areas where they can still leverage the skills that they have.
The other important piece is that if they at least have their own language, we are able to provide training to further formalize their training in their own language. Then they can be certified community interpreters and have independence and empowerment, and earn money as a freelancer as well.
Those are some of the small examples. We have customized programs for different levels of literacy for women, particularly when we know that they have family conflict or a domestic violence situation going on. We at CIWA have 50-plus programs. My portfolio in particular includes domestic violence counselling and that kind of stuff. We're making sure that they are all connected. In any program, we do family violence screening as well. That way they are immediately able to be connected.
There are other programs, but the way they are designed, unfortunately, they have to be driven by the funder mandate and be completed by a certain time period. That is why one of our strong recommendations is for a customized program that could run for a longer period. A program running for six months could run for one year so that the women who are going through it, if they're in the process of fleeing an abusive situation or if they've just fled the situation, do have customized time and support. While they're healing themselves, they're also gaining that employment security.
I hope that answered your question.