WHAT IS
PITSENG TRUST?
A women's funding organisation founded by women
from historically subordinated communities of South
Africa.
Established in 1998 in response to the need for an
alternative approach to funding women for their total
emancipation.
ABOUT THE NAME
Say "Pitseng" and the image that one evokes is the traditional tri-legged pot used by women to cook food. Such food is, most times, made from simple and scarce ingredients. Yet, entire communities survive on it! Thus
Pitseng is a symbol of strength and survival - of life itself which transfigures its stereotype as a sign of women's subordination. Ingenuity, intellect, resourcefulness, commitment-these are the other ingredients women
throw everyday "into the pot of life".
Pitseng, a Sesotho/Setswana word that means a pot, literally speaking.
PITSENG represents the collective energy and recreative potential of women to transform their lives, their country - to move between the domestic hearth and the wide socio-economic and political world where they belong and which belongs to them.
We have adopted our name PITSENG in affirmation of
women's daily life supporting activities.
VISION
Our visions is of a South Africa in which women move
out of their condition of subordination and economic
servitude and are able to participate fully in the broader
economic, socio-political and cultural life of the country.
MISSION
To support through funding:
·Community-based women-led development programmes that adopt a holistic/integrated approach.
·Women's organizations and groups working on the human rights of women through innovative and change oriented strategies.
WHO MAY APPLY?
·Women's organisations or groups from less privileged sectors of society, involved in the struggle for social and economic equity.
·Women's organisations or groups that work to achieve the human rights of women.
·Groups of women who encounter obstacles in raising funds because of the activities they engage in.Copyright© 2007 PITSENG TRUST. All Rights Reserved.
Web Design by K. MOTSHABI email.
A women's funding organisation founded by women
from historically subordinated communities of South
Africa.
Established in 1998 in response to the need for an
alternative approach to funding women for their total
emancipation.
ABOUT THE NAME
Say "Pitseng" and the image that one evokes is the traditional tri-legged pot used by women to cook food. Such food is, most times, made from simple and scarce ingredients. Yet, entire communities survive on it! Thus
Pitseng is a symbol of strength and survival - of life itself which transfigures its stereotype as a sign of women's subordination. Ingenuity, intellect, resourcefulness, commitment-these are the other ingredients women
throw everyday "into the pot of life".
Pitseng, a Sesotho/Setswana word that means a pot, literally speaking.
PITSENG represents the collective energy and recreative potential of women to transform their lives, their country - to move between the domestic hearth and the wide socio-economic and political world where they belong and which belongs to them.
We have adopted our name PITSENG in affirmation of
women's daily life supporting activities.
VISION
Our visions is of a South Africa in which women move
out of their condition of subordination and economic
servitude and are able to participate fully in the broader
economic, socio-political and cultural life of the country.
MISSION
To support through funding:
·Community-based women-led development programmes that adopt a holistic/integrated approach.
·Women's organizations and groups working on the human rights of women through innovative and change oriented strategies.
WHO MAY APPLY?
·Women's organisations or groups from less privileged sectors of society, involved in the struggle for social and economic equity.
·Women's organisations or groups that work to achieve the human rights of women.
·Groups of women who encounter obstacles in raising funds because of the activities they engage in.
Web Design by K. MOTSHABI email.
Where
to find us:
Norvic House
7th Floor
93 De Korte Street
Braamfontein 2001
SOUTH AFRICA
Tel: +27 11 403 1950/2
Fax: + 27 11 403 1095
email - click here
Norvic House
7th Floor
93 De Korte Street
Braamfontein 2001
SOUTH AFRICA
Tel: +27 11 403 1950/2
Fax: + 27 11 403 1095
email - click here
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