About
Centre for Promoting the Rights of African Women, Youth and Children
C-RAWYC is a registered non-governmental organisation based in Abuja, Nigeria. We promote the rights of women, young people and children across five connected areas: protection from harmful practices; peace, security and freedom of belief; health and health rights; economic empowerment; and environmental rights.
Our vision
An Africa where women, youth and children are informed, empowered and protected from preventable harm.
Our mission
To use evidence-based communication, education, community engagement and innovative tools to challenge harmful beliefs, influence positive behaviour and promote practices that protect the rights, health, safety and wellbeing of women, youth and children.
Why these five together
A woman who cannot afford to leave will not leave. A girl walking three hours for water will not be in school. A mother who cannot reach a clinic will not survive a difficult birth. A widow stripped of her land loses her health, her income and her standing in a single stroke. A family driven from its village by violence loses schooling, income, healthcare and safety in a single night. These are not five sectors. They are one life, and treating them separately is why so much intervention fails.
Within that, we pay particular attention to what comes before the crisis — the belief, the silence, the moment a thing could still have been named and stopped. Almost everyone can identify harm once it is undeniable. The difficulty is earlier, and that uncertainty is not stupidity. It is the absence of a clear line, and lines can be taught.
What we hold to
- Responsibility belongs to the person who causes harm. Never to clothing, to behaviour, to body shape, or to the fact that someone did not report immediately.
- Plain language. If a person needs a lawyer to understand an explanation, the explanation has failed.
- Numbers with their limits attached. We say how many people a finding came from, and who they were.
- Education is not a substitute for help. Everything we make points towards people who can act.
Independence
C-RAWYC is an independent non-governmental organisation. It is not a commercial venture and it does not trade on the work of any affiliated company.
Contact
Write to hello@crawyc.org. If you are a funder or a potential partner, the partnership page sets out what we are looking for.