Organization Name: Indigenous Women for Health and Equality, IWHE-NGO
Website: www.iwhe-ong.org
Tell Us About Your Organization
Despite being the original inhabitants of the equatorial forests of the Great Lakes region of Africa, Indigenous Peoples are, in official terms, virtually invisible. Subject to continued discrimination leading to poverty, unemployment and reduced access to education and medical care, their situation is further aggravated by a lack of recognition of their difficulties by communities and institutions.
It is extremely difficult, often even impossible, to find data and statistics about indigenous communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo and it is even harder to find data relating to the situation of indigenous women and girls. Indigenous Women for Health and Equality operates as a non-profit, apolitical, non-denominational organization with no ethnic, racial or tribal affiliation.
Location
1, Avenue MOMBASA, Commune KALUNDU,
Ville d’Uvira/Province du Sud-Kivu/RD Congo
Vision and Long Term Objective
Our objective is to contribute to the achievement of effective gender equality and to empower indigenous women and girls through:
- Promotion of maternal, child, sexual, reproductive, mental and nutritional health of indigenous women living in our areas of intervention
- Promotion of the rights and human dignity of indigenous women through female leadership, the fight against gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive rights
- Driving the economic empowerment of indigenous women through female entrepreneurship
Who We Are
INDIGENOUS WOMEN FOR HEALTH AND EQUALITY, (IWHE-NGO) is an independent, non-profit, apolitical, non-denominational and non-ethnic, racial or tribal organization created in 2020 by a group of indigenous women and girls to combat the lack of gender equality they experience within their local communities.
How Can People Help/Volunteer With You?
We are looking for volunteers that can help us with the following projects/tasks:
- Fundraising and development according to the organization’s ongoing projects and needs
- Healthcare, volunteers may come to offer medical and nutritional care to women victims of sexual violence
- Empowerment and financial literacy trainings
- Social media
As we are focused in human rights and equality for all, we look for volunteers who can accept to work for promoting women rights and gender equality for all.
What Makes You The Proudest About Your Organization?
We welcome volunteers and offer accommodation, car transportation, food free of charge. We make sure the host families will treat them with respect and teach them the Congolese culture.