Our Impact

Between 1996 and 1999, SEVOTA worked with: 74 groups that carried out small-scale action plans, bringing together 900 widows, 214 guardians of orphans, more than 250 genocide survivors, 600 orphaned or otherwise vulnerable children organized into 10 recreation and anti-violence clubs, and 250 women survivors of sexual violence suffering from trauma.

I thank SEVOTA for their approach, it builds on its foundation to work with women survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, to support their health for the well-being of women and households in the community.

The ABIYUBAKA Forum whose meaning is a place where ideas are exchanged. It can be a real place or a virtual place. “Abiyubaka” means: “women who rehabilitate themselves”.

The combination “Abiyubaka forum” which gives the name to all the women’s groups therefore draws attention to the following logic which is the basis of all our intervention: By meeting and exchanging ideas – in a safe space – survivors of sexual violence heal and, as a result, learn to positively change their relationships with their children.