About Us - Peuples Sans Voix NGo
Objectives of the organization
To sensitize, organize and accompany women and girls to become aware of their situation and to know how to claim their rights.
Set up projects for the empowerment of women and the unemployed rural girl.
Mission
Mobilize members of entire communities to work towards change and help them understand that all voices, opinion and input have value.
Peuples Sans Voix militates to promote and defend the rights of the most vulnerable people (women and girls).
Target audience:
- Abandoned women and landless widows
- Girls with idleness
- Women and girls survivors of sexual violence
- Marginalized women
- Women and girls with physical disabilities
Organizational structure of PSV
PEUPLES SANS VOIX has three organs, namely:
- The general assembly meets once a year and remains the supreme decision-making body for the life of the PSV association.
- The Administration Committee, composed of 7 women and headed by Mrs APENDEKE Dorcas
- The Executive Committee currently led by Mrs. Odette IRANGA LUSHAYIRE, seconded by the Program Officer in the person of Mrs. Laety MUFOLO. This committee operates with 3 permanent officers and 15 women volunteers who replace each other according to the skills of each. These volunteers come from our actual members.
The main office of PSV is currently located in Nguba in the Nyalukemba district on Evariste Baganda Avenue in Ibanda, Bukavu.
This office was courtesy of one of the members of PSV because of the difficulties of rent. PSV has no external institutional support.
Date of creation: 2002
- Why the creation of the association Peuples Sans Voix
In order to meet the needs of the marginalized population, especially women and girls in rural and peri-urban areas, in promoting women's rights, information, mobilization and participation for collective efforts to improve Their living conditions
Having noted that the actions of self-advancement of women, access to education, and those of self-promotion of the base are not sufficiently vulgarized,
Concerned about the under-reporting that plunged many populations into ignorance and isolation; Pioneer members (03) have agreed to create this non-political and non-governmental development association since July 2002.
Specific areas / sectors of intervention: -
- Education in Law,
- Promotion of income-generating activities,
- Workshop and training on the rights of women and girls,
- Psychosocial support for victims of violence,
- Advocacy for women's and girls' rights