Category: grantees

$1,000 to produce radio jingles on the link between violence against women and HIV and air them on 3 radio stations in Kinshasa

$1,000 to organize an awareness creation programme on gender based violence, including a peace march

$8,000 to create awareness on HIV and violence against women issues in 15 public schools in Kitwik in DRC. The grant will also be used to conduct voluntary HIV screening to student in those schools. This grant will go a long way to sensitize female students on HIV&AIDS and to encourage them to subscribe to voluntary HIV testing.

$1,000 to organize an advocacy and fundraising programme in support of survivors of sexual violence.

$8,000 to produce radio programmes, train women leaders on women’s rights issues and create awareness on sexual violence among project community. The project will educate women on their rights and the mechanisms in place to protect those rights in the DRC, a country which has been devastated by armed conflicts and where sexual violence has been used as a weapon of war.

$8,000 to set up and equip a literacy centre in Mwenga in DRC. The Mwenga community is highly deprived with a high illiteracy rate. Radio programmes on women’s rightswill be used to supplement the adult literacy programme as a means of boosting the status of women in the community.

To support the participation of the Executive Director in a workshop organized as part of the International Women’s Summit in Nairobi.

$12,000 to train 60 Bambuti indigenous women in soap making as a means of increasing their income levels. The trained women are expected to pass the skills on to others after gaining the knowledge. This is a group of women who are badly marginalized within the Congolese culture, which leaves them particularly vulnerable. The improved income is to help improve their socio-economic status.

$1000 to organize a one day training workshop on gender based violence issues and organize community awareness creation activities on the need to curb violence against women

A contribution of $15,000 to organize the young women feminist forum in Central Africa.