“Her Voice, Her Power”
Slogan
A true commitment to empowerment and Advocacy
Binti Voice Initiative is an advocacy platform that was established in February 2025 to educate people from around the world about the impact of war on young women in Congo and empower them for positive change, focusing on survivor leadership. Following a successful fundraising of medical funds supporting survivors of gender-based violence in May 2025, Binti Voice Initiative expanded its capacity to become a 501(c)(3) non-profit to scale up its impact on the local and international level.
Mission
Binti Voice Initiative is an influential platform that aims to empower and educate girls and young women under 18 years old in Congo, victims of gender-based violence through innovation and advocacy.
Vision
A Congo where every girl, free from the scars of violence, child marriage, grows up empowered, educated, and equipped to shape her own future — using her voice, her strength, and her story to inspire lasting change in her community and beyond.
Values
- Centered on Women
- Character
- Compassion
- Community-Focused
Meet our Founder
Sarah is the founder and main advocate at Binti Voice Initiative. She is a Congolese citizen pursuing her Masters degree at Oxford University. She is very passionate about education and has the dream of advocating for young women’s access to education and fight against child marriage at an international level. Sarah’s compassionate heart and passion for storytelling has led her to create this platform.
Sarah Mugoli Balekage
Founder and Advocate at Binti Voice Initiative
Watch this video to learn more about us
Our 4 C Core Values
Centered on women
We focus on young women’s abilities, resilience and their potential to make a positive impact rather than their weakness while placing their voices, needs and lived experiences at the heart of every action and decision we make.
Character
Our character is centered on trust and transparency. We value and honor women stories and experiences, do not share or discuss their personal informations with third parties without their written approval and responsibly use all funds received through donations and grants.
Community-based
Our organisation is run by local members who are considered experts of their community. Through offering services such as healthcare support and education, we foster civic engagement, create jobs and work with other organizations to create positive, sustainable change within our community.
Christ-centered
We are a kingdom building organisation and believe that God is the leader and we are only his managers, stewards of his resources. We make spirit-led decision and beyond supporting women, we strive to help them find their identity in God who made them and love them. We are inspired by Isaiah 43:1
Our Model of Empowerment
Empowering women to raise their voices against sexual violence is a powerful way to combat child marriage in Congo. Sexual violence is one of the root causes of child marriage, leading to stigma, deepening poverty, and forcing parents to marry off their daughters at a young age to protect them from rape. This website stands as an important step toward breaking that cycle and supporting girls in the long run in the fight against child marriage thus the connection between the combat against sexual violence and child marriage.
Awards and Recognitions
KEN BONDE AWARD
The Ken Bonde Award is intended to honor “exemplary demonstration of student initiative, intellectual creativity, constructive integration, and academic achievement” in the senior year’s work at St Olaf college.
Nominated for the award, her advisor commended Sarah’s resilience, creativity and resourcesfulness. She noted that Binti Voice Initiative merges her intellectual strenght and interests, creative ideas, entrepreneural spirit, and passion/drive for creative change in her home country of Congo.
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION- NGO GO
NGO GO is an in-depth training organised by International Students Inc for christian students or recent alumni who intend to start a Kingdom Building Enterprise, whether that be a non-profit organization, a for-profit business, or short term project that is centered on extending Christ’s Kingdom in their home country or abroad.
This conference has given Sarah the tools to write a professional business plan and present the plan to donors. It has also provided her with the opportunity to meet successful Christian entrepreneurs and professionals who work in venture capital, as well as mentors who will walk alongside her in her journey to establish this organisation.
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