Pastoral Women´s Council

PWC was founded by Maanda Ngoitiko. She is a maasai herself. She ran away from her family and got education in Dar es Salaam. She was supported by the Irish Embacy to go to Ireland where she studiet a further diploma in development stusies. PWC is a women-led and focused organization that finds ways to support, mobilize, and enable pastoral women and girls to achieve better lives for themselves, their families, and their communities. We seek out pastoral women and girls in the most remote areas of northern Tanzania who lack access to essential services and help them to become self-reliant and take control of their own development. Our passionate membership base of pastoralist women, and our membership driven approach, means we listen and respond to the members we serve. PWC addresses the root causes and effects of poverty, exclusion and injustice by empowering women to engage in the development of their communities as equals. It is a rights-based approach, meaning that women and girls know their rights and are able to claim their rights where necessary. We understand the complexities and intersectionality of pastoral women and girls’ marginalization and therefore aim to offer a holistic range of solutions that have proved successful in transforming established gender relations in remote pastoralist areas. PWC serves Ngorongoro, Longido, and Monduli Districts in Arusha Region, northern Tanzania.PWC will work to increase our range of programing and interventions in these three districts in order to reach more women and girls and ensure that those communities have the intensive, holistic support they need. In practice, we are aiming to ensure that quality education,economic, water, health and rights needs are all met in our working areas so that there is lasting societal transformation and sustainable development.