Vision and Mission

VISION of Mafubo

A world where all women are safe, autonomous and empowered. We believe that strengthening women’s leadership at the international level is a necessary condition for achieving true sustainable development. « […] women … have proven to be our most effective weapon against poverty … » (Yunus, Muhammad. Towards a world without poverty, JC Lattès, 2006, p. 46). We believe in solidarity as the most important feminine value that transcends borders and continents.

MISSION of Mafubo

–> To fight extreme poverty, insecurity and the various forms of violence against women in Africa and elsewhere.

–> Provide girls from disadvantaged backgrounds with conditions that guarantee academic success.

Our goal is to develop partnerships and create an international network to support development projects for women’s empowerment.

Among others, our special objectives are:

  • Economic integration through income generating activities for women from precarious communities.
  • Accompany the African woman towards her financial empowerment and access to decent housing.
  • Fight against all violence against women by focusing on domestic and other societal violence.
  • Facilitate access to appropriate care for reproductive diseases in women, particularly women’s cancers.
  • Guarantee the security and living conditions necessary for school success of girls from disadvantaged backgrounds.
  • Cooperate, support and support African women to achieve the millennium goals.
  • Promote any action that builds the capacity of African women to achieve the millennium goals.
  • Network and lobby decision-makers to invest in actions that build the capacity of African women to achieve the Millennium Goals.
  • Innovate to motivate the private sector to engage in projects that support African women to achieve the Millennium Goal.
  • Create an observatory to monitor the implementation of commitments to achieve the millennium goals.
  • Mobilize, raise awareness, innovate and take action to eradicate violence against women.
  • Identify, Define and Act on the cause, context and African issues.

In many African countries, a child dies because his parents do not have money to buy food or medicine (in most cases, three dollars would be enough). Although we cannot solve all the problems, we decided to take simple actions that can save lives by focusing our action on the woman since she is the cornerstone of the family.

 

The African woman has always been the backbone of her family and community. However, the conflicts and poverty that plague Africa sometimes force her to live in conditions that undermine the well being and future of her children. Many women agree to tolerate marital and even extra-marital violence in silence because they have no other choice.

It is by building around it that we will achieve the millennium goals. The financial autonomy of the African woman would make it possible to reach the first seven goals of the millennium. When a woman has the financial means, her family eats well, she improves her home, her children go to school and they are cared for when they are sick.

One of the prerequisites for sustainable development to become firmly established on the African continent is to build it around women.

As Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations said, « Study after study, we have learned that there is no more effective development tool than women’s emancipation. No other policy is as likely to increase economic productivity, or reduce infant and maternal mortality. No other policy is as secure as improving nutrition and promoting health, including HIV prevention. No other policy is so powerful to improve educational opportunities for the next generation. And I will risk that no policy is more important to prevent conflict or to ensure reconciliation after a conflict is over. But regardless of the real benefits of investing in women, the fact remains the most important: Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, free from need and fear « .

Koffi Annan alsosaid in 2002: « […] successive studies have shown that there can be no effective development strategy unless women play a central role in it. » « […] women … have proven to be our most effective weapon against poverty » (Muhammad Yunus, 2006). The woman is the guardian of humanity, and the child is the future. Yet single women make up the largest group that suffers from extreme poverty, making them the most vulnerable group in society, and their children suffer the consequences throughout their lives. In the poor neighbourhoods of African cities and in townships and slums, many women in couples accept the unacceptable for lack of other choices, because they do not know where to go and how to house their children; they suffer in silence all kinds of violence and exploitation. Their combat, their tenacity and their resourcefulness to keep their head out of the water force respect. That’s why Mafubo wants to accompany these women who live in extreme poverty and precariousness and bring them to their total autonomy.

To accompany them is to help an entire family, eventually a whole continent.

That is why we joined the idea of ​​creating a federation under the name of Mafubo and bringing together all those who want to help African women achieve a better life.

Margaret Mead, a great anthropologist, said, « A small group of committed and thoughtful citizens are capable of changing the world. Besides, nothing else has ever succeeded! « 

We want to be this group of citizens. Welcome to all good wishes.

The case of Burkina Faso illustrates the situation well: women who own a business or those who benefited from a microcredit to open one were in good health. None of them suffered from vesico-vaginal fistula, a disease called female leprosy resulting from childbirth without assistance. It is among women who are financially dependent on their husbands or their in-laws to find cases of vesico-vaginal fistula, whether in town or in the country.

IMPROVING THE LIVING CONDITIONS OF AFRICAN FAMILIES THROUGH THEIR MAIN PILLAR: WOMEN.

Mafubo is apolitical and non-confessional. Its action is carried out with the local populations according to the needs and the priorities previously identified by the teams on the spot. ¨Mafubo is organized so that the impact of its involvement with the communities can be quickly quantified and its evaluation easy to carry out. Its effect must be felt quickly and visibly.

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