Association AMKA onlus

ASSOCIATION

 

AMKA is an ONLUS no profit association founded in 2001, realizing responsible development in the countries of the south of the world.

 

AMKA promotes self-sufficient development activities to sustain the reconstruction process of the economics and the social texture and to guarantee the basic rights throughout the active involvement of the population.

 

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, AMKA, in collaboration with AMKA Katanga, carries on an integrated development operating in sectors like the child education, the adult literacy, health, access to water, microcredit, fair trading and fight against HIV/AIDS transmission.

 

In Italy, AMKA’s task is about information and training organizing courses, meetings, exhibitions, screenings, debates and events of every kind. The aim is to convey about life conditions in developing countries and to sensitize the public opinion about it.

 

AMKA promotes critical consumption, ethical finance and fair trading.

 

 

OUR PRINCIPLES

 

To operate on an “integrated” level: in its development operations, AMKA cares about the different components which form a society and that can represent growth. For this, AMKA decided to operate in different areas at the same time, like education and literacy, health and productive activities. The projects are bonded to each other and the local equipe work in a cross-sectioned way.

 

To employ a local equipe: the operators, teachers, doctors and social workers who work at AMKA’s project are all Congolese.

 

Promote the active involvement of the population: the beneficiaries of AMKA’s presence are not simple “addressees”, but represent an active subject which requests and elaborate strategies to hack it. The costitutive aspect of this approach is the empowerment, which means to “stimulate and support people’s abilities throughout learning, organization and action”.

 

To believe difference as a value: AMKA works to allow to every person equal dignity in respect of cultural diversities perceived as a basic right and development root. The latter is acknowledged not only in economical growth, but as a way to obtain a more satisfactory existence from every point of view.