PIFEVA (Pillar to Vulnerable Women Active in DR Congo) is a non-profit support women and local communities against poverty and injustice created June 4, 2004 in Bukavu, in a context of widespread poverty, sexual violence to women, the spread of STI / AIDS, exploitation and use of women and children in mining squares forces and armed groups and massive displacement of populations following multiple wars occurred in East DRCongo. 

PIFEVA (Pillar to Vulnerable Women Active in DR Congo) Congolese NGO was founded in 2004 in Bukavu and specialized in the promotion of gender equality and women's leadership, protection, socio-professional reintegration and economic status of women and children in vulnerable situations and in supporting local communities in conflict transformation, in a struggle prospects against poverty and injustice in South Kivu in eastern DR Congo.

As part of its project to support the political participation of women in decision making bodies in the territory of Shabunda in South Kivu, funded by the Congolese women Fund in 2016, PIFEVA accompanied 135 women leaders reinforced capacity through training workshops on gender in Shabunda leadership, the electoral process, citizenship and good governance. Through that project, PIFEVA sensitized customary chiefs and local people to support women candidates in the next provincial and local elections in the territory of Shabunda in South Kivu.

As part of its child protection project of the street and victims of sexual violence in Bukavu, funded by ICCO-Cooperation in 2016, PIFEVA has set up a center for protection and socio-professional reintegration of children at risk, through which 547 street children and child victims of sexual violence received special protection and family and social reintegration (family mediation) and academic and professional reintegration in the city of Bukavu.

In the end, through its project to support the promotion of peaceful mechanisms for conflict transformation in the territory of Kalehe and the Ruzizi plain in South Kivu, also funded by ICCO-Cooperation in 2016, PIFEVA set up and strengthen capacity of 4 local peace committees in Kalehe center, Bunyakiri and Minova in Kalehe territory and to Kamanyola in the Ruzizi plain, through which 611 people (212 women, 67 children, 173 young people and 159 displaced / returned) victims of land disputes, have access to peaceful settlement mechanisms candied and are accompanied in obtaining land titles in the territory of Kalehe and the Ruzizi plain in South Kivu.

PIFEVA(Pillar of Vulnerable Women Active in DR Congo) is a Congolese Non-profit Association created on 04 June 2004 in Bukavu in South Kivu and legally registered in DR Congo. She has specialized in the promotion of gender and women's leadership, the fight against sexual and gender-based violence, the social and economic reintegration of women and girls in vulnerable situations and in the accompaniment of local communities. prevention and peaceful conflict management, with a view to fighting against poverty and injustice in South Kivu in eastern DR Congo.

It is in this context that we set up this program called "Give hope to girls victims of sexual violence in Bukavu, DR Congo.

Main objective

Contribute to the reinforcement of the system of protection and improvement of the living conditions through the apprenticeship of the trades (cutting and sewing, hairstyles) for the self-care of the young girls victims of the sexual violence in Bukavu in the DR Congo.

Specific objectives

1)Strengthen the protection of girls who are victims of sexual violence to prevent abuses and violations of their rights and improve their protection in  Bukavu in the DR Congo;

2)Provide psychological counseling to young girls who are victims of sexual violence to improve access to psychological care following severe trauma in Bukavu in the DR Congo;

3)Providing vocational training cutting and sewing, hairstyles to facilitate the social and economic reintegration of young girls who are victims of sexual violence in Bukavu in the DR Congo.

Our project is facing the problem of deforestation caused by lawless logging, particularly irrational logging of trees in the community forests of Mwenga for the production of ember to Bukavu. This contributes to the significant destruction of forest biodiversity, including the scarcity of edible caterpillars, to the disadvantage of indigenous girls and women who depend on these forest products. This bad practice is also the cause of climatic disturbances, food insecurity and the accentuation of poverty in 7 groups bordering the Itombwe Nature Reserve whose forests are overexploited and degraded at Basimweda 1st-Kalundu, Irangi- Ilibo, Kigogo, Bawandeme, Bingili-Bazala, Byonga and Kitutu in Mwenga territory east of DR Congo.

To this end, the objective of our project is to contribute to the fight against deforestation by planting host trees of edible caterpillars with a view to participatory restoration of this forest biodiversity (edible caterpillar) beneficial to indigenous girls and women. , as the use of caterpillars as a food product makes it possible, on the one hand, to compensate for the loss of crops and food insecurity, and on the other hand to create a source of income for indigenous girls and women in the 7 riparian groups of the Itombwe Natural Reserve whose forests are overexploited and degraded in Basimweda 1st-Kalundu, Irangi-Ilibo, Kigogo, Bawandeme, Bingili-Bazala, Byonga and Kitutu in the territory of Mwenga.