VIDEFI OFFICE

AFTER THE WORKSHOP

After the workshop, audience started to interact to each other and having lunch together. Pictures below. 

THE AUDIENCE

Below is the audience paying the attention to CGE Legal advisor while giving the lecture, on the most sensitive and the most horrible issue that alienate the accessibility of Refugee in many social assistances.

Mm REBECCA WA CIPAMBA VIDEFI dep/coordinator

COMMITMENT

We are committed to:

-Maintain, promote the value of refugee women, Girls and Children.

-Assisting morally and economically the abused Refugee Women and Girls.

- Offering financial support that uplift grassroots refugee Women and Girls.

-Training and engaging women within different fields, e.g. Computer training, Hair dressing, sewing skills, etc.

-Campaigning against ethnic conflicts: segregation, tribalism and local conflict.

-Awareness on transmissible illness/Virus.

-Teaching about gender equality.

-Taking refugee women and girls into different trainings, workshops, and seminars to gain more knowledge that will help them to forge their future.  

Honorable Western Cape Team of commission for Gender equality, distinguish guest and dear friends,

 I have no doubt to say that, under the above mentioned Mission and vision statement, VIDEFI, lays is foundation and believe that, refugee women and Girls have the ability to contribute to the global millennium goals, and that should be achieved if:

a)       The equal opportunities will be granted to all women.

b)       We over come gender to gender discrimination.

c)       Acknowledgment of refugee women skills

d)       Learning from others

e)       Integrating refugee women into South African women league and other institutions that promote Gender equality.

                                                                                                                                         

Honorable Western Cape Team of commission for Gender equality, distinguish guest and dear friends.  I caught ‘’ women informed is a women safe’’, educating women is to educate the entire nation.

 BE PART OF A GROUP THAT UPLIFTS WOMEN, GIRLS AND CHILDREN.

Allow me to extend my gratitude and say thank you to the Western Cape paramount board for Gender Equality and other these have joined hand to make this event to be successful.  Thank you for all. 

TOGETHER WE WILL BUILD BETTER COMMUNITY. End of the Speech.

Mission and vision statement

-We are vividly and objectively looking at and supporting:

-Standing polemically against anything that is harmful to women.

-promoting education for Refugee Women, Girls and children.

-Promoting the skills for refugee women and Girls.

-Promotion for Gender equality, because we believe that,

Gender inequality is the most harmful tool that oppresses women.

-Women right and liberty of expression.

-Women Economic emancipation;

-Health and HIV /AIDS awareness,

-Supporting women within micro projects

Create, promote, and develop, socio- economic activities for

the refugee women and Girls. 

Mission and vision statement

-We are vividly and objectively looking at and supporting:

-Standing polemically against anything that is harmful to women.-promoting education for Refugee Women, Girls and children. -Promoting the skills for refugee women and Gi

 Above is the picture of VIDEFI Deputy Coordinator Mm Rebecca Wa Cipamba, presenting the company to CGE team, on the behalf of Coordinator Mm Jacqueline Mulasi and particularly VIDEFI.

The speech was as the following

Ladies and gentlemen, honorable COMMISSION FOR GENDER EQUALITY TEAM, distinguish guest, and friends in development, it is a privilege to find ourselves among the highest place, where by different issue will be discussed.

On the behalf of VIDEFI coordinator Madam JACQUELINE, I am here to present a young NGO called VIDEFI.

VIDEFI BACK GROUND:   After having therefore, discovered the lack of education and skills within refugee Women and Girls, a group of  refugee women  had joined hands on Sunday 16^th November 2008 and  founded a non profit  organization called VIDEFI ‘’ Vision for the Development of Fizi’’

Here is the pitcher of  Videfi member from Zimbabwe called Mm Portia Madombwe, interacting with Workshop holder Mr M Leonard Macakathi form Commission for Gender Equality ‘’CGE”. Mm Portia was raising the point on the issue that affect refugee Women in South Africa, including difficulty to proper jobs although among refugee women we have these are qualified and that can contribute to the Millennium Development Goals MDGs. She went on and asked, how do refugee women employee their skills to contribute to the South Africa economic growth while we are not given chance to do so?   

On the left, is the pitcher of Mr Macakathi Education Officer, and Keegen Lakay Colleague both from Commission for Gender Equality ‘’CGE” team. They are attentively following the point raised by Mm .  Below is Mr. Leonard CGE education officer as workshop holder, presenting and sharing his experience as well giving the lecture on Gender issues. 

 Portia