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MALAIKA FUND
The Malaika Fund is an endowment fund launched in 2006, as part of Urgent Action Fund-Africa’s efforts to ensure the long term sustainability of the organization. UAF-Africa has recognized that we need to find and support solutions for political stability, economic ability and social cohesion for women and men in Africa. We continue to mobilize local support for our work across the continent.
We are inviting you to publicly recognise and honour the women that have meant a lot in your lives! by buying space for a Coffee Table book specially dedicated to these women. The book will be launched towards the end of 2010. The space is going fast and you don’t want that woman in your life to miss out in this important publication. Take a look at the information sheet below and contact us for more details.
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All over Africa, warfare is being waged on women (our mothers, daughters and sisters) – let’s heed their screams.
Every year thousands of African women die as a result of war, thousands face gross physical and sexual violations during conflict and in its aftermath. Of a sample of Rwandan women surveyed in 1999, 39 percent reported being raped during the 1994 genocide, and 72 percent said they knew someone who had been raped. In 2003, 74 percent of a random sample of 388 Liberian refugee women living in camps in Sierra Leone reported being sexually abused prior to being displaced from their homes in Liberia. Fifty-five percent of them experienced sexual violence during displacement.
War has for decades cast a shadow and provided justification for the abuse of African women. The magnitude and extent of these violations is yet unknown as Human Rights Watch points out "cases of sexual abuse may be significantly underreported," because women fear "the possibility of reprisals by perpetrators... ostracism by families and communities, and cultural taboos." The end of internal conflict does not signal the end of violence for women, in fact in many instances the violence meted on them grows worse. When soldiers and militia stop attacking each other women continue to offer a soft target, a vent for the murderous aggression conjured up during the conflict. Lawlessness that prevails in both conflict and post-conflict situations means that these women have little political or legal redress for violations committed against them.
The Urgent Action Fund-Africa is determined to change this by providing rapid response funding for vital strategic initiatives carried out by women in situations of conflict and escalating violence in Africa. The Urgent Action Fund-Africa is committed to developing effective methods of funding and that will help save women's lives throughout the Africa. Over the last ten years the Urgent Action Fund-Africa has worked with women in over 35 African countries in situations of conflict or escalating violence. The Urgent Action Fund- Africa adds its voice in the rebellion of African women that are shouting ‘Not Our Bodies!’ At Urgent Action Fund-Africa we join the ranks of African women as they stand up for peaceful and secure Africa. This it is a complicated and challenging process but our vision is simple:
A secure and peaceful continent, in which women’s human rights are valued, promoted and respected.
We invite you to join us:
In celebrating our mothers, Stepmothers, Sisters, Wives, aunties, Grandmothers, and Daughters in their contribution to our lives. UAF-Africa is in the process of preparing a Coffee Table Book titled, Extraordinary Lives: The Story of Amazing Women’
The The book will honour them as the cornerstone and foundation of our lives, as the women who not only birthed us but who continue to inspire, motivate and mentor us throughout our lives. The book will be an African lead philanthropic venture with the sole purpose of raising funds and awareness for the Urgent Action Funds Endowment Fund. The objective of the Malaika (Daughter's) Fund is to support UAF-Africa’s activities not just for one year, or even one generation, but for perpetuity.
The Malaika Fund, , is currently valued at Kshs. 1.6 million at the end of at 2009, and is a collection from more than 93 individual and corporate donors. The Malaika fund was established to provide grants to women in situations of conflict and escalating violence; and to provide ongoing support for a wide variety of Urgent Action Fund-Africa’s other activities.
For more information on how to donate to the Malaika Fund or be apart of the coffee table book, please visit www.urgentactionfund-africa.or.ke
Thank You for your continued and dedicated support
Previous Malaika Fund Donors
Karanja Kabage - Convenor UAF-Africa’s Malaika (Daughter’s) Fund
Edith Malombe
Anonymous
Julius Makau Malombe
Anonymous
Eric Otonglo
Edward Gitau
Martin Machira
Emma Bowa
Moses Mwangi
Gail Bowa
Geoffrey Munyao Malombe
Andrew Odhiambo
James Malombe Makau
Justus Mwangi
Robert Makau
Wilfred Matheri
Vincent Mulama Odanga
Eric Tama
Pamela Mudhune
Sydney Olouch Bowa
Samuel Thenya Maina
Vicky Karimi
Kagendo Murungi
Francois Grignon
Thomas Matheri
Koki Muli
Liz Makimaro
Bronwyn M Owen
Kaari Murungi in memory of Thamaru M’Muga
Kennedy G Chege
Julius Murungi
Ken Mwendwa Kalali
Wanja Gitau
Frank Murungi
Nyambura Kiragu
Wangari Kiragu
Andrew Murungi
Zaria Kariuki
Njue Murungi
Imani Kiragu
James Otieno Ohayo
James Muguiyi
Eric Murungi
Gerald Eaton
Zawadi Nyong'o
Audrey M Vuvi
Musalia Mudavadi
Dorothy Nyong’o
James Muguiyi
Peter Anyang' Nyong'o
Henry Obwocha
David Mukii Mereka
John G Macharia
Flora Mbindyo
Manu Chandaria
Kevin Murungi
Maina Kiai
Mr & Mrs Steve Ouma
Hannah Wairimu
Lynette Ouma in memory of Malaika Ouma
Ndungu Wainaina,
Eva Ayiera,
Susan Kaaria,
Rosemary Okello,
Anne Njogu,
Jessica Nkuuhe,
Berewa Jommo,
Ariane Brunet,
Virginia Wang'ombe.
Malaika Institutional Donors
Bank of Uganda
Covaw
NIC Bank
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