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Who we are
The name Yetu means “Ours” in Swahili. Congo Yetu Initiative “CYI” is a grassroots; non-profit organization of passionate, dynamic, and energetic volunteers working to provide support to women and children in the DRC, our main focus is job creation and economic simulation. CYI provide sustainable development programs and project need to sustain its own. Our volunteers come from many professional and personal backgrounds, from many ages, and from across Canada and the United States as well as from many of the Southern Countries in which we work.
CYI members believe in sharing knowledge and creating opportunities for women and children who are victims of war in the DRC, regardless of religion or ethnicity
Our General Objectives
Together with the government, private sector and other NGOs, our objective at the CYI is to help the underprivileged in a tangible way, by providing those opportunities to break the cycle of poverty and suffering and leading them to socio-economic transformation. Essentially, we are working towards:
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Nation Building, by providing access to viable financial products to the poor, especially women, in order to build their lives.
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Emancipation of the poor through equitable economic development and training for development, empowering them towards the cause of improving their quality of life.
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Providing microfinance and other related financial services
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Focus on sustainability, hence the focus on starting urban centers and then leading into the rural areas.
Our Specific objectives
Considering the alarming situation of women in the DRC for a decade, we have identified specific objectives and priority mission for the year 20011-16. These objectives are:
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To promote gender equality and defend the interests of women and children’s right and fightagainst all the forms of violence, discrimination, marginalization;
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To focus on job creation and economic simulation
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To bring awareness and advocate on behalfof women and children, particularly those victims of rape, in poverty, displaced by war or those who are exposed to discriminations due to their social status, ethnic origin, marital status, physical health, age, or religion;
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To develop partnership and bonds of solidarity with other groups of women in the world in order to facilitate education and social and political participation of Congolese women;
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To develop and disseminate tools that enable Congolese women to take leadership roles at all levels: local, national and international;
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To develop regional capacity to train Congolese women using global and international development frameworks (e.g. Beijing Platform of Action, Agenda 21, the Habitat Agenda, Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, and the Millennium Development Goals-MDGs). Such training would serve as advocacy tools for poverty alleviation, participatory and responsive governance and human centred sustainable community development;
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To assist ending silence, stigma and shame on HIV/AIDS in communities and taking action to prevent further spread of the disease;
To advocate for the elimination of child labour including children soldiers and address the socio-cultural factors that f
Our value and Principles
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Champion the cause of the underprivileged in every service, product, process, system, strategy, structure and style of management.
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Honesty and transparency in every dealing, reporting and in information management, with every one
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Integrity in every aspect of what we say and do
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Respect for people in every situation and idea
