Becoming the catalyst solution to the challenges facing families
The focus is on its social economic empowerment
young women ready to take their destinies in their hands for a future
young women ready to take their destinies in their hands for a future
OVERVIEW |
WHO WE ARE Nguvu Ya Africa is a creative non-profit organization that
founded by women at 90% and men at 10% to serve women and girls below 35 years, while equipping them at their various stages of development with information and skills. The aim is to tackle the social-political and
what we do
OUR INTERVENTIONS
EASY TO ACCESS INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE
Intervention
Bringing together girls and women from different backgrounds and tribes, equipping them with practical skills and mental health support. This covers access to healthy menstrual education and sexual and reproductive health education activities for out-of-school girls at schools and universities by providing counseling, menstrual hygiene garment products, while organizing a personalized life skills mentoring program to complement their formal education. We use art as an educational and therapeutic tool for girls and women in our program, teaching dance, public speaking, theater, painting arts and music.
HEALTHY
Intervention
Access to safe platforms for safe and healthy discussions between girls and women to improve their mental and social well-being in order to become emotionally intelligent leaders. Help marginalized girls with the potential to succeed in school by gaining access to formal education. Nguvu Ya Africa offers basic computer skills to young stars, because empowered girls are the future of DR Congo. Young people have the power to bring change if they have skills that they do not have access to in schools.
WOMEN AND GIRLS ARE FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED AND INTERDEPENDENT
Intervention
Nguvu Ya Africa promotes the development of small social enterprises.
We identify potential but also marginalized girls and put them into groups that participate in competitions to pitch small, for-profit business ideas. Then, small grants from Nguvu Ya Africa are awarded to emerging girls and women working in groups on a specific business and who are ready to create change in their communities and win in the competitions. Grants are repaid to Nguvu Ya Africa to be given to another new group for the next phase, once the first groups have been able to multiply the start-up grant they received and are able to continue running their business at the next level. The aim is to encourage collaboration and community unity while stimulating the socio-economic lives of girls and women and their entire families. We also provide a platform for these girls and women to celebrate each other’s achievements at the end of a one-year period of training and supervision by Nguvu Ya Africa. We take this opportunity to financially support the initiative of the most successful groups to celebrate their progress and their contribution as Nguvu Ya Africa women and girls to improving their lives and their communities.
PARTENERS
Ruth MUKAWA
«Je suis membre de NGUVU BYA AFRICA… Nous avons eu beaucoup des filles qui ont eu le souci d’être formée en coupe et couture malgré leur moyen elles ont été motivé pour être là. Nous avons eu un peu de soucis vu l’état financier de certaines filles qui n’ont pas terminer faute de moyen pas d’appui de leur famille ou des
bienfaiteurs. Il n’y avait pas trop des machines pour bien former malgré les efforts de l’organisation qui leur regorge quelques machines »