In 1996 the Democratic Republic of the Congo falls into a chaotic regional conflict which is only just beginning. Two women, Zita Kavungirwa and Salufa Nunu, who have acquired much experience with the association Peasant Solidarity, Frères des Hommes partner, decide to put their expertise to the use of women in the village of Bukavu. They found the Association for the promotion of women’s entrepreneurship (APEF), which unites economic activity with the women’s suffrage. Today APEF supports 84 (...) Next ...

In Senegal, le quality of rural life has largely declined, due to the drastic agricultural crisis. Agirculture is the primary economic force of the population. This crisis also affects urban life due to the arrival of massive quantities of youth, uneducated or poorly educated, looking for better opportunities in the big city, where they find themselves on the brink of poverty and socially exiled. In response to this double challenge of supporting a peasant agriculture more and more at (...) Next ...

Non governmental organisation created in 1995, the Kora-PRD acts for economic and social change in Senegal by encouraging the artisans’ sector. Various engagements have been made: training, partnering access to credit, negotiations with public entities, production and marketing of raw materials. The Kora-PRD supports several professional associations in a dozen areas of Senegal: hundreds of workshops and thousands of artisans and apprentices benefit from their actions. Birth of a (...) Next ...

GRAIM is an association, based in Thiès with actions in different sectors: health, education, social communication, decentralization and economic cooperation, the economy, etc. GRAIM will assist any action benefiting the well being of communities, hence the importance mutual concordance. GRAIM acts all over the Thiès region, promoting and assisting mutual health funds. It campaigns for communities, community leaders, authorities, technical and financial partners to adhere to mutual health (...) Next ...

To visit Duhamic-Adri’s website, click-here Duhamic-Adri, Association for Integrated rural development, was founded in 1979 with as mission to support rural community initiatives of self-development. Duhamic-Adri works particularly on conciousness raising among peasants around the mechanics of neglect and at offering services such as projects analysis, help in negotiations, training, support options... The objectives are several : Fight against the neglect of the rural community (...) Next ...

To visit Adenya’s website, click-here You can also visit their blog Adenya is a non-governmental organization created 25 years ago with the objective of contributing to the development of the Nyabimata area, located south-west of Rwanda (currently west zone of Nyaruguru district). It intervenes in a non-urban zone, primarily populated by extremely poor peasants who survive thanks to rudimentary farming undertaken on very small plots (in average, less than 1 hectare [2.5 acres] per family) (...) Next ...

Since 1994 the Federation for the development of the informal sector (Fedesi) has worked towards organizing and developing economic activity among labourers of the unofficialized sector who endure very precarious work conditions. Recognition of the civic and social role played by this category of the population, who has been left on the wayside, is also a primary objective. Before the tragic events of September 2002, Fedesi included 12 000 members in 250 groups dispersed throughout (...) Next ...