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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 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.
Our Specific Objectives
To develop, to valorise socioeconomic and cultural activities of indigenous for securing their empowerment;
To protect the forester’s ecosystem and ancestral land in the rural district of the DRC by the valorisation of skills capacities and the contribution of the Indigenous and rural women;
to support the communal activities and the struggle against the deforestation and the climate change and to promote the communal agro-forester;
To support the education, the health and the emergences of the ladies and the Indigenous women.
ACTIVITIES ALREADY LED
Activities of the empowerment: Agriculture: here the women wok for two purposes:
- Change of experience: in working, the women share their knowledge and receive new one between theme;
- Empowerment: from agriculture, they innovate others activities for breaking their vulnerabilities cycles and say no to the marginalisation as (Villagers association the saving and loan, accession at the land after selling of their harvest and insert domestic violence victims by the cut and seam, potteries or production of braziers called household improve)
ENVIRONMENTS
We are doing the activities of biodiversity protection in reforesting the sites, to protect that had undergone the pressure of our community, those are exposing to the disappearance.
Recent activities
13th
10/2025
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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10/2025
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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10/2025
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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