Emergency Project

Urgency project in favour of women vic­tims of war in Congo

Cre­ation of a micro­cre­dit fund to redo­nate trust and hope in life to fam­ily moth­ers, vic­tims of war's exac­tions in Congo.

The "Urgency Project for women vic­tim of war in Congo" is a micro­fi­nance pro­gram extremely urgent for the South of Congo's pop­u­la­tion sur­vival, pop­u­la­tion vic­tim of civil war. War has killed fam­ily fathers (heads of fam­i­lies). It has burnt down houses, pil­laged plan­ta­tions and today Congo's moth­ers - already ecluded from tra­di­tional banks' cir­cuits - don't know what to do with the num­ber of orphans left in their arms.

In this moment, in the coun­try­side envi­ron­ments, the sit­u­a­tion has got­ten worse for farm­ers and sup­pli­ers who've lost their work­ing tools, seeds and breeds because of war. A very big part of the pop­u­la­tion - in major­ity women, excluded from their vil­lages - is set aside in the periph­ery, where it is des­tined to a grow­ing mis­ery life.

Congo's dis­favoured fam­i­lies' young peo­ple are part of sac­ri­fied gen­er­a­tions, those ones that have become flesh for can­nons, the young peo­ple who have no right to a sane edu­ca­tion and who are always sent to the front to die and have them­selves buried in the most total anonymity.

Project's objec­tives:

The main goal is the set­ting of a sys­tem to grant and sup­port micro­cre­d­its assigned to the female poor­est pop­u­la­tion, vic­tim of civil war's exac­tions: such pop­u­la­tion is already ecluded from tra­di­tional banks' circuits.

• Emprov­ing and devel­op­ing pro­duc­tion in the agri­cul­tural and infor­matic sectors
• Cre­at­ing a meet­ing, ori­en­ta­tion, emu­la­tion place among such micro­cre­d­its' beneficiaries
• Gen­er­at­ing income to allow the project's actors to take care of them­selves and improve their life's conditions
• Incul­cat­ing a credit's cul­ture to the ben­e­fi­ciary population
• Cre­at­ing in Occi­dent an effi­cient infor­ma­tion and sen­si­tiz­ing sys­tem about the tragedy lived by women and poors in Congo.

Ben­e­fi­cia­ries

Ben­e­fi­cia­ries of the Urgency Project are the poor­est women from reli­gious asso­ci­a­tions, from vil­lage com­mu­ni­ties sited on the two Con­goes cap­i­tals' periph­ery, Brazzaville's and Kinshasa's, vic­tims of the socio-political tur­bu­lences which have upset life rythm in the cen­tral Africa's small regions.
Our choice was taken to the reli­gious asso­ci­a­tions' and the above men­tioned cap­i­tals' periph­ery vil­lage com­mu­ni­ties' women. They rep­re­sent an impor­tant num­ber of farm­ers in the agri­cul­tural area of the two cap­i­tal cities, vic­tims of war. The asso­ci­a­tions' women are in a num­ber of five thousands.

Pro­mo­tors

Malaki Devel­op­ment and Malaki ma Kongo

Means of realization

To build such micro­cre­dit fund, Malaki ma Kongo prompts the eth­i­cal finan­cial insti­tu­tions and the good will peo­ple to sup­port us for build­ing a micro­fi­nance insti­tu­tion in Congo.

Also the asso­ci­a­tion Malaki ma Kongo ena­gages a series of actions aimed to sen­si­tiz­ing peo­ple about the tragedy lived by the poors in Congo. All this through con­fer­ences, paint­ing exhi­bi­tions, films and videos, shows, the­atre, fes­ti­vals, mini malaki African week­ends, din­ners, infor­ma­tion let­ters to churches, schools, asso­ci­a­tions, com­mu­ni­ties, eth­i­cal finan­cial insti­tu­tions, indi­vid­u­als; encour­ag­ing sup­port on dis­tance; Malaki-Live: a sort of respon­si­ble tourism…

Any­body can con­tact us to col­lab­o­rate in the plan­ning and pro­duc­tion of such activities.