“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. We focus on survivor leadership.
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
- Strength- based and Woman-centered
- Integrity
- Compassion
- Community-Focused
Meet our Founder
Sarah is the founder and main advocate at Binti Voice Initiative. She is a current Congolese student at St Olaf College and she major in Social Entrepreneurship and Community Advocacy. 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 Sarah’s journey and background
Our Core Values
Woman-centered
we strive to focus on young women’s abilities, resilience and their potential rather than on their weakness while placing their voices, needs and lived experiences at the heart of every action and decision we make.
Integrity
We live in integrity and use the funds we receive for their initial purpose
Compassion
We walk with compassion and kindness, acknowledging our privilege and leveraging our potential to advocate for young women.
Community
Through this website, we hope to make a space for women to come and support one another on their journey of healing using the different resources we provide
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
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 by 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.
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