City of Joy & V-World Farm were chosen from 800 projects worldwide to participate in Ma Earth Funding Round 3 to support community-led regeneration.
This is a three-week collective funding campaign open now through 21 July. How can you help support our living classroom for regenerative farming in the Congo?
Every donation helps!
The matching pool is distributed based on the number of donors, not the size of each gift. Skip a cup of coffee and donate that $10 instead. It counts just as much as someone’s $1,000 gift.
DONATE TODAY at cityofjoycongo.org/MaEarth.
The Project: The Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been ravaged by an ongoing regional conflict over the area’s vast natural resources for close to three decades. A devastating outcome of this conflict has been rampant sexual violence targeting women and girls. In partnership with Congolese activists and survivors, V-Day created the City of Joy in Bukavu to meet the needs of these survivors. A six-month residential program that serves 90 female survivors of gender violence at a time, the City of Joy is an example of what is possible when women are given the chance to live in community and heal themselves.
Our 29th class is set to graduate in July bringing our network of graduates to 2493 strong.
A throughline of the transformation participants experience is agropastoral training at the V-World Farm, a beautiful and lush 338-hectare sanctuary—which operates on a solar energy system and a generator— that is a living classroom for the women of City of Joy through regenerative farming, animal husbandry, and ecology training. It is also an essential source of food security for them through a bounty of crops and protein sources the farm provides.
Your donation will help support 2 cohorts of 90 women (total 180 women) to complete training at the V-World Farm, one each in our January and June sessions.
Take Action:
→ Donate at cityofjoycongo.org/MaEarth
→ Share this campaign. Every new donor grows our share of the matching pool
→ Mark the deadline: Campaign closes 21 July