Our Vision
An empowered community where all its members receive the dignity and respect of lifting themselves out of poverty.
Our Mission
we aim to eradicate poverty by supporting disadvantaged young women in refugee camps in western tanzania and in vulnerable east dr congo communities with educational, vocational and entrepreneurial tools they need to thrive, and inspire change in their own communities.
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Our Ambition
We target ambitious young refugee women and train them to become change leaders who strive to mobilize desperate women in their communities to start small business cooperatives.
The inspiration for our work comes from the community response and participation. We believe that empowering the most disadvantaged to address pressing social and economic challenges according to their own vision and their own creative potential is key to community transformation!
Our Background
CRI, formerly Hope for Women and Children(HWC), is officially registered as a civil society organization in Tanzania’s Kigoma region with a growing network of over 22 volunteers operating in three refugee camps across the region and in vulnerable east DR Congo communities where we run a series of occupational projects that create 500+ jobs annually.
Everyone is welcome: academics, business teams, foundations, skilled persons and charitable organizations worldwide with development plans close to our mission to join us as strategic partners. Read on to learn more and find out how you can get involved.
Our Team
Our core values
Community engagement
We believe that refugees need to build their own resilience to flourish. Driven by this sense of optimism, we engage poorest refugee women in the decisions that affect them, and support them with right tools to make those decisions
Teamwork
We believe in the power of collaboration to advance our mission. We listen and seek to respect everyone’s ideas. We identify the best idea, and prioritize approach that works.
Partners’ involvement
We walk our partners through everything we do, and win trust through evident and long-lasting results.
Innovation
is at the heart of all our solutions. For us, innovation is not about being new, but thinking in a new way to tackle our critical challenges
