Introducing myself and my journal: Voices of Haitian Rural Women

OFAT coordinate a Network Women and Youth in the rural area. The network extends nationally and within ten (10) departments in the country with a national committee of ten (10) Member per department.

The OFAT aims to contribute to the institutional strengthening of women's organizations and development of rural women. She supervises, advises and trains leaders of organizations in different fields and passes these training courses to other women in their communities. She helps these organizations to submit projects to their specific needs and helps them seek funding. She also made a research in various areas such as funding sources by theme and specific donors.

Our actual project:

The primary objective of the network is training because we believe must first train our women before moving on to other steps.

1- She’s currently finalizing a draft community access center for women that will benefit the community. There will be a center in each department that will not be sufficient but it is widespread in common. This project will enable rural women to be open to the outside world in several areas.

2- We just start with the Formation and mobilization of the Rural Women on the CEDAW Convention. We translate it in the national language (Creole and French) before we form the trainer who suppose to form hers NGO’s members.

She fought and providing training in the following areas: Discrimination and violence of all sorts, fight to control gun violence in Haiti (poor circulation and traffic), civic education, access to ICT and strengthening capacity for empowerment of women, awareness of women in the areas of decision-making at all levels. Access to health care. Fight against HIV / AIDS.

I must note that the different types of organizations that operate in different areas is what explain an area as vast.