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 ingredientswomen 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© 2012 PITSENG TRUST. All Rights Reserved.
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 ingredientswomen 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© 2012 PITSENG TRUST. All Rights Reserved.
EMPIRE
PARK
55 Empire Road
Block C Office 11
Parktown, 2193
JOHANNESBURG
TEL: 011 482 1961
FAX: 011 482 7444
086 669 8312
SKYPE: pitseng_trust
55 Empire Road
Block C Office 11
Parktown, 2193
JOHANNESBURG
TEL: 011 482 1961
FAX: 011 482 7444
086 669 8312
SKYPE: pitseng_trust
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