About Company
WFT-Trust As A Feminist Fund Thus Plays A Vital Role Towards Women’s Rights And Empowerment.
As Tanzania’s first and only women’s rights fund, our overall goal is to contribute towards women’s rights and empowerment, and to women’s and feminist movement building through implementing a functional and empowering funding mechanism for women in Tanzania.
Our Vision
To contribute to the building of a strong women’s movement in Tanzania through making grants, strengthening women’s capacity, building strategic alliances and mobilizing resources.
Our Mission
To see a Tanzanian society where women realize their full potential and engage fully in the transformation of their communities in order to achieve empowerment and social justice.
OUR FEMINIST PRINCIPLES AND APPROACHES
As a feminist women’s fund, we aim to support, and build capacities and organize the power of Tanzanian actors of the women’s movement to commit to advancing a feminist agenda that advances the rights and dignity of women, girls, and children. As a consciously feminist fund, we understand our mandate is based on feminist principles that have always guided and will continue to guide our ways of working:
HOW WE DEFINE FEMINISM
As articulated in the Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists
Feminism is the struggle against patriarchal power. Our ideological task is to understand patriarchy as a system of male authority, which legitimizes the oppression of women through political, social, cultural, and religious institutions. Our political task is to end it by challenging other systems and structures of oppression and exploitation, which frequently mutually support each other. We are also part of a global feminist movement against patriarchal oppression in all its manifestations. Our focus is fighting against patriarchy as a system rather than fighting individual men or women. Therefore, we define our work as investing individual, collective, and institutional energies in the struggle against all forms of patriarchal oppression and exploitation