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[Magdalena Vicent]

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Male Advocacy for Gender Equality (MAFGE) is a gender advocacy organization in Tanzania working to advocate for human rights, end violence, and enhance dignity, equality and justice for women by involving men as agents of change. MAFGE believes that men can bring changes because they continue to occupy position of power and privilege in the social and cultural structures of patriarch systems. MAFGE realizes that without their active involvement a gender sensitive society will neither be achieved nor sustained.
 
Our Campaign
 
Please join and support our campaign “EQUALITY FOR ALL” to advocate and sensitize through seminars and educational gatherings the importance of empowering women and the likelihood of a society sensitive to both genders in appreciating human rights for all people and involving women in social and economic activities (gender equity). This campaign will be conducted in the rural community of Arusha reaching marginalized groups that face intense abstracts of a patriarchal community. Most parts in the rural Arusha, the existing customs and tradition in most communities still perpetuate traditional practices which affect women and girls. Due to these patriarchal systems women are unable to make decisions regarding their health, education, economic resources and income from family level upward.“EQUALITY FOR ALL” will campaign for men to empower women as an equally important group in the community, by sensitizing many men concerning gender issues, raising awareness through seminars and training. With the use of social media, theater and film we also seek to raise awareness through sharing of testimonies, mentoring and teachings to exemplify further the idea in sensitizing men on gender equality and equity. 

What we need
 
We aim at starting implementation immediately when our funding target sets foot at $ 8500. All the funding will support campaigns on gender issues affecting women by sensitizing men as the advocates for change. Without these funds we will not be able to accomplish our goal. The support you give us is going to help us reach our goal. 

Budget 

$ 2000 Will conduct four (4) seminars to sensitize men on the social, economic and reproductive health issues affecting women.

$2000 Will conduct training to young men and women who would rally women empowerment activism.

$2000  Will conduct four (4) school based seminars on gender issues in two (2) single sex men schools and two (2) co-education schools.

 $1250 Will conducting theater work and showing of films to encourage more understanding on gender issues.

$1250 Preparing articles on flyers, paying for radio sessions, and TV interviews.

More ways to support

Regardless of how much money you have to put into this campaign or none, we still thank you for taking a look through our campaign. If you have no money to put into our campaign, we would still appreciate to have you involved by kindly sharing this campaign with friends, relatives and/or who can support us. We would like to thank you again for sharing this campaign.  One can also sponsor our projects and/or volunteer with us. For further information and ways to support our work please visit our website at www.mafge.org  please feel free to contact us by mail and/or phone. 

Thank You 

Thank you for your generosity, time and efforts that you put to supporting us. We are looking forward to embrace a community that appreciates and values each gender equally through steps taken as this campaign. Keep in touch, and let us know all of your ideas and suggestions. Please spare a few minutes to put a commentary on this campaign and we would be happy to keep in touch and stay connected.