b'2023 Annual ReportSakhis Economic Empowerment EE also launched several newEconomic EmpowermentProgram (EE) works with initiatives to bolster its regularsurvivors and their families programmingincluding twothrough financial literacy career fairs held in collaborationworkshops, regular career with NYC partners, training tocounseling sessions, assistance encourage clients to practicenavigating HRA and Public vigilance around frauds andBenefits systems, and ongoing scams, and knowledgeablesupport through the job workshops about financial topicsapplication process, facilitating including asset building andlarger processes of financial savings.independence and breakingcycles of generational poverty. EEs pilot Match SavingsThe EE program prioritizes Program worked with interestedholistic and curated EE services gainfully employed survivors. Theto all survivors so they feel participants appreciated thesupported as they embark on opportunity to begin their assettheir long-term financial stability building journey with Sakhi.journey. Through our supportive financialliteracy and Savings/InvestingIn 2023, the EE Program served a workshops that accompanied thetotal of 253 survivors, 107 of match savings program, thewhom were new to the program participants felt more informedand 146 of whom had previously and knowledgeable about theirreceived EE services. This finances, enabling them torepresents a 72% increase in prioritize savings each monthsurvivors served as compared to through not only opening savings2022.accounts but also openinginvestment accounts. 72%Increase in the number ofsurvivors who worked withSakhis EE Program.11'