OUR MISSION

Our mission is to militate in the women solidarity and communal for the promotion and the socioeconomic empowerment of the indigenous women, the promotion of rights, thereby the protection of the environment.

OUR VISION

Our vision is to see the democratic Republic of Congo, where the indigenous and Rural women will enjoy their Rights, strength their empowerments and contribute to the durable development through their Knowledge and Knowing traditional relative to the conservation of the biodiversity and struggling against the climate change.

ACTION RAY

Although MAHARIFA be authorised to work on the whole national territory, concentrates its activities in the province of North-Kivu and South-kivu, MASISI, NYIRAGONGO and KALEHE territory.

PRESENTATION OF INDIGENOUS AND RURAL WOMEN’S SKILLS

MAHARIFA YA WAMAMA VIJIJINI (Indigenous and Rural women)

Indigenous and Rural women’s skills: it is a Non-Government Organization Humanitarian and the durable development that has seen the day on the date of 15th November 2019 in Goma town, Province of north- kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Indigenous and rural women’s skills (MAHARIFA YA WAMAMA VIJIJINI was registered under national ministry of justice, human right and guard of stamp of NOJUST/SG/20/22479/2021 of 19/7/2021.

OUR CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION

The democratic Republic of Congo is a country full by the conflicts since a period of ten years later. Indigenous and Rural women’s skills is a humanitarian organisation dedicate to help(AID) people in depression(distress) in the DRC, then adopts an approach based on the best traditional knowledge and the available Indigenous can widely bring the solutions to improve the conditions of social life, economic and sanitarian of local population in distress in the DRC.

OUR INTERVENTIONS FIELDS

Anxious to contribute at the improvement of the conditions of social life, economics and sanitarian of the population in our country, a group of young people, women and men are putting them together so that to see how they can contribute to improve the condition of life of our local population in distress. It was therefore question for the organisation to step in 4 fields, especially:

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Recent activities


13th
10/2025

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Following the training in agroecological techniques, the women acquired technical knowledge and farming practices that allowed them to improve their production while safeguarding biodiversity.

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13th
10/2025

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Indigenous and rural women are responsible for implementing the initiative's activities and developing production and value-addition strategies. For example, they harvested six hectares of cassava tubers, which they then processed and sold, thereby increasing their income.

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13th
10/2025

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The means and techniques of production, which are still very rudimentary and not very sustainable, lead to low agricultural output, characterized by low local consumption. This situation requires communities to fully commit to the principles and techniques of agroecology and to respect the related disciplines. Capitalizing on all available knowledge is essential to promoting increased production. Low production and low consumption can lead to the abandonment of certain seeds in favor of a monopoly of others, which is also a danger to the protection of biodiversity because it profoundly affects traditional habits and lifestyles.

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