OUR PARTNERS
Connect ~ Support ~ Empower
Widows for Peace Through Democracy partners with numerous organisations and widows’ associations worldwide.
Our focus is widows in conflict and post conflict zones.
Here you will find links to our partners and associated organisations, news reports and data on the status of widows.
- Cameroon
- DRC
- Ghana
- Kenya
- Nigeria
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Zambia
Partner organisations in Cameroon
Committee of Assistance To The Needy Woman of Cameroon (CAFENEC)
The Cameroon Necessary Woman Assistance Committee (CAFENEC) is a non-profit and non-political women's association.
B.P.: 13 282 - Yaounde, Cameroon
Tel: + 237 79 97 52 59/ 98 62 01 26
Facebook Page
Read about CAFENEC here.
Partner organisations working in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Common Cause UK
Common Cause UK works to support and empower Congolese women in the UK and to enhance the quality of life of Congolese families, in order to contribute to the achievement of sustainable development in the UK and abroad.
Works to relieve women from poverty, and facilitate their integration and participation in their host country.
Works to provide women with appropriate facilities, including but not exclusively limited to education, cultural heritage where they could develop their skill and their untapped potential.
Raises the Voices of Congolese Women in the UK on issues of peace and security and human development in the DR Congo.
Enquiries/further information:
Common Cause UK,
The Froud Centre,
No 1 Toronto Road,
Manor Park,
London E12 5JF.
Email: commoncauseuk@hotmail.co.uk
Partner organisations in Ghana
Mama Zimbi Foundation
P.O.Box AT 651
Achimota Market
Accra, Ghana
Tel: +233-244261200, +233-244340484
Contact: mamazimbifoundation@gmail.com
Widows and Orphans Movement
We are a Non-Profit Organisation focused on helping alleviate the plight of widows and orphans in the Northern region of Ghana.Box 582, Bolgatanga
UER, Ghana
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/widowsorphansmovement/home
Partner Organisations in Kenya
The Rona Foundation
The Rona Foundation conducts psycho-social support, life skills, and Para-legal and income-generating programs including micro-finance, tailoring, organic vegetable farming, and beads-making for rural widows in Kenya.
Rona currently serves more than 8000 widows in Siaya County, clustered in over 60 widow groups, and has become a model that has now been replicated in 12 counties in Kenya through county chapters.
Partner organisations in Tanzania
Women’s Legal Aid Centre - United Republic of Tanzania
Partner organisations in Uganda
Hope for Widows Project
Website: www.womanofpurpose.co.ug
Contact:
Jane Opolot, Founder/Executive Director
Woman of Purpose
P.O. Box 300
Pallisa
Uganda
Tel: +256 772 481 883 | +256 755 410 174
- Colombia
Partner organisations in Colombia
ABColombia
ABColombia is the advocacy project of a group of five leading UK and Irish organisations with programmes in Colombia: CAFOD, Christian Aid UKI, Oxfam GB, SCIAF and Trócaire. Amnesty International and Peace Brigades International (PBI) are observers.
Founded in 1997 to work on the question of forced internal displacement, it has since expanded its mandate to cover human rights and development.
ABColombia’s purpose is to influence decision makers in the UK and Ireland and, through them, European level decision making with a view to resolving the human rights and humanitarian crisis in Colombia and achieve a lasting peace and equitable and sustainable development.