Women Aid Organization South Sudan

Introduction: Women’s Aid Organization (WAO) is nonpartisan, non-profit-making, impartial, nonreligious and independent organization that supports women, girls and community in fighting gender in equality, discrimination, superiority of one gender and all forms of exploitation in the society and promote equality at all level. WAO aims at strengthening women and girls to take parts in every community activity and contribute to the development of every society in the world.  Women and girls have been denied of education, economic development, ownership, leadership, and taking part in peace process as result they are facing all kinds of sufferings in the world. WAO is women led organization that was formed to support the vulnerable women and girls in the world to fight for equality of every person in the world. WAO started in 2017 during the civil conflict in South Sudan as result of the suffering that women and girls were going through, GBV became the order of the day and women and girls were facing all kinds of sexual abuses in the country. 

Vision

WAO strive to create better life and better future in which all women and girls will be viewed and treated equally as men in all aspects of life; economic, social, civil, political, and cultural with focus to become self-sustaining and remained recognized in the society.

Mission

To attain gender-equality in south Sudan society, to which end we focus our efforts on promoting the social, educational, political, economic development of south Sudanese women and girl’s, including advocating for women’s girl’s rights, eliminating discrimination against women and girls including GBV, advancing women’s and girl’s capacities and leadership skills, promoting their participation in the decision making, and intensifying their voices for peace and security.

Goal

To promote gender equality in South Sudan society with focus on increasing the social, educational, political, economic development of south Sudanese women and girl’s, including advocating for women’s girl’s rights, building their capacity to be self-reliance and reduce the rate of GBV.