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Voice of Mitooma was founded in 2016 by two Female Journalists from the rural District of Mitooma in western Uganda. The main goal of Voice of Mitooma is to empower Women in Uganda to manage the world in a sustainable way. We are working to empower Women to raise awareness on Environment and Sustainability and support them to manage the word in a sustainable way in Uganda.

Mission

The Mission of Voice of Mitooma is empowering Women in Uganda to manage the world in a sustainable way.

Vision

The Vision of Voice of Mitooma is a Society with empowered Women managing the World in a Sustainable way.

Addressing Environment Injustices


Voice of Mitooma been working to promote environmental justice for Women by working with grassroots women’s groups and women not only resisting injustices, but also to build alternatives for managing the world in a sustainable way. Feminist environmental justice grassroots women’s groups we are working with are resisting the abuse of corporate power and state power. They defend their territories, communities and environment from extractive industries and destructive agriculture and development projects. They demand climate justice because those who are least responsible for climate change experience its greatest impact. Through resistance, they challenge profit-oriented models of development and progress. In doing so, they confront powerful players such as governments and corporations.

They fight for their rights to participate fully in decision making processes. For example, we have been working with Women in Albertine Region in Western Uganda to empower women leaders and grassroots women’s groups in the region to resist development aggression and militarisation arising out of the oil discovery and exploration in the region, while fighting for women’s leadership and participation in decision making on policies and programmes that affect women and the environment. In Kigezi Sub-Region, South Western Uganda, we are working with Women from communities that depend on forests and the Mghinga and Bwindi National Parks to fight against the exploitation by government officials who embezzle revenue that are supposed to go back to communities from the revenue collections from the National Park by the Government.

Voice of Mitooma supports grassroots women’s groups to build an environmentally just world in different ways. Groups of women’s groups we support are working to develop alternatives to the extractive, linear and universal model of economic growth. Some of the ideas from women’s groups also emerge from communities that have continued to live sustainably ever since the arrival of extractive industries and destructive agriculture and development projects.

Our Approach


Voice of Mitooma is a Women’s Rights Organization. We use a Feminist Approach to Women’s Rights. We work from a feminist/Women’s rights perspective. We empower Women to fight environmental injustices and implement alternative, environmentally-just, solutions. Voice of Mitooma is fighting the impact of climate change and environmental degradation on women, girls, transgender people and intersex people. We work on the nexus of women’s, girls, trans and intersex people’s rights and environmental justice, for example, we work to address the exclusion of indigenous women from decision-making over their land and we fight for Women’s right to water, food, and a clean, safe, and healthy environment.

In our work, we focus on issues that are under-addressed and/or contested. For example, while women’s rights movements have led to revolutionary changes in public attitudes, law, governance, private sector and civil society, there is still much work to be done on these issues and on addressing injustices of environmental degradation and climate change which at the moment is the most pressing issue. Women, girls, trans and intersex people experience not only the effects of environmental damage and climate change, they also encounter violations of their right to water, food, and a clean, healthy, and safe environment.