Pan African Feminism
We work with feminists aged 15 to 30. We take a holistic approach to tackling gender inequalities. Our approach recognizes that change is needed to support women and girls' awareness, capacities and abilities, and to create opportunities and an enabling environment for empowerment. We collaborate with feminist organizations, human rights activists, legal partners, community leaders from different sectors to influence legislation and policy that promotes gender equality, at the local and national level.
As female entrepreneurs our goal is to make the work environment more inclusive so as to increase the number of women business owners of microenterprises. Helping women implement the Sustainable Development Goals especially SDG 5.Increase knowledge about SDGs and their potential impacts on women ,LGBTIQ+ Refugee Youth and girls among traditional audiences. Collaborate with private sector partners on all SDGs and share the best practices and innovative ideas.
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings."
― Cheris Kramarae
The Cultural Expectations
and Work Culture in Africa do not respect the rights of women. Women are
reduced to being baby making machines. The majorities are forced into early
marriages and are denied education. Women are often told that their goal in
life is to find a "husband" to marry and raise a family. Women are not allowed
to have dreams. If a woman chooses different paths then they are shunned by
community. This is a norm that We aim at changing.
End Violence against Women and Girls
End Child Marriage
Groom and Create Spaces for Feminists in Leadership
"We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are."
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists