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COFAPRI - Funding & Projects

How we are financed

COFAPRI relies on the generosity of donors and, to date, is mostly financed its founders.

What we do

We promote human rights to the women and girls of DR Congo.

We empower women and girls to speak out and so break the stigma and tell the world the abuses they undergo in the name of culture and tradition. 

COFAPRI also works for improving the Congolese females’ social development, welfare and integration through various activities.

COFAPRI also works for improving the Congolese females’ social development, welfare and integration through various activities. To make this effective, facts will be collected and researches conducted as to inform the world of the abuses the Congolese females endure. In this context, we aim at creating an Institute for Congolese Females Voicing their Rights, known as INCOFEVOR.

This Institute will educate not only the females about human rights but also the males because the latter are mostly the perpetrators of females’ abuses, though some females also abuse other females or sometimes females self abuse. The school will be at the service of the entire society; thus the youth and the old persons will be concerned. This Institute may extend to the Great Lakes Region as for empowering the women and girls of this area on human rights.

COFAPRI funds the purchase of livestock for its members, as well as contributing towards hospital fees and school costs.

This has included the purchase of livestock for members and the payment of hospital bills for rape survivors.

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COFPARI - SafeWorld Field Partner in DR Congo

COFAPRI - DR Congo

COFAPRI is based in Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Rupublic of Congo

COFAPRI empowers women through encouraging income-generating activities such as the rearing of livestock.

The organisation works closely with local leaders and encourages men's participation in awareness-raising events in order to change ingrained cultural attitudes.

COFAPRI is based in Bukavu in eastern DRC, on the border of Rwanda. Membership extends to the surrounding villages. It is intended that it should extend throughout the Great Lakes Region and countrywide.
Women and girls in remote villages are our primary focus. Read more.

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Women in DR Congo

War, Poverty and Rape

DR Congo is the third largest country in Africa with immense natural resources. Its untapped deposits of raw minerals are estimated to be worth in excess of US$ 24 trillion. 

For years though it has been at the centre of what has been described as 'Africa's world war'.

A five-year conflict pitted government forces, supported by Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe, against rebels backed…

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Members of COFAPRI on International Womens Day 2012Members of COFAPRI on International Womens Day 2012