We Talk. We Unite. We Heal.
Our Impact
We have reached just under half a million people so far. We are growing as a community of professionals in all fields, people with lived experiences and are joining hands with other organisations. Wassor Womanity is about community building.
WASSOR is committed to breaking the stigma surrounding psychological harm. Our mission is to start conversations, educate and educate university students and the general public about the importance of mental health. We are proud to train mental health champions and encourage them to take an active role in promoting well-being. You can donate to help us continue this important work and build a better future for all.
What We Do
We need funds and your expertise. Our ambitions are big but they are doable. Your help will be used for
- Scholarships
- To facilitate, train and run workshops;
- To create employment;
- Fund our face-to-face and online activities;
- For consultants;
- For legal representation;
- To organise conferences
- And for a land, building our community centre;
WASSOR Womanity is proud to offer a state-of-the-art psychological harm training program designed and facilitated by a highly skilled and diverse team of psychologists from the UK, France and Senegal. This unique program is based on the latest research and best practices in the field of psychology. It is tailored to the specific needs and challenges of women in today’s world. The training program covers a range of topics including stress management, coping with anxiety and depression, the importance of social actions and developing individual and collective resilience, and is delivered through a combination interactive lectures, practical exercises and group discussions.
Mission Statement
We aim to raise awareness and destigmatise psychological distress and to foster the autonomy responsibilities:
We intend to build an information and learning centre, as well as a shelter for vulnerable women where they can find tailored advice, signposting, and assistance (psychological, financial, administrative and/or legal);
We offer a space where they can voice their needs and struggles and explore their prospects. In Senegalese society, divorced, widowed, and other forms of single motherhood including women with caring responsibilities are often not seen nor heard to the point of stigmatization.
Brand Beliefs
We strongly believe that with their voices informing our strategies, together we can foster a healthier community. Poverty and caring responsibilities for someone with disabilities have been linked to negative mental wellbeing7. Therefore, we will focus on economic activities of the women from our community. Women’s economic activities in Senegal depend on geography. For example, those in rural areas make 70% of the workforce in the agricultural sector, according to UN WOMEN. Despite local traditions, the low status of women in wider society in general, lack of access to financing, legal documentation, access to national and international markets and theeffects of climate change.
Brand-Positioning
Our brand is liberation centred, we believe in the capability of our communities, as demonstrated above, to bring about changes for themselves and the future generations. We are grassroots with lived experiences, and we will operate with participatory action with transformative goals. Our Modus Operandi is based on Decolonial and Feminist ethics of working with Others and caring for them. We are and represent the people we work for/with, we have lived these realities. These make the difference between Wassor and other COB/NGOs.
Target Audience
We serve all who have been impacted by psychological or are just willing to learn and women with caring responsibilities of a family member with a physical or mental disability
A grassroots organisation with global reach
WASSOR Womanity was founded by Bineta Gueye Thiam, a psychologist with lived experience of the realities faced by women in Senegal. We are a team of Senegalese professionals working across psychology, community development, research, and social action — in partnership with academic institutions including the University of East London and with support from Grand Challenges Canada.
We are not an organisation that arrives with a model and asks communities to fit into it. We work from the inside out: recognising what already exists, formalising it, and building the infrastructure for it to sustain itself.
Brand Culture
- Respect: we will respect the dignity, privacy and autonomy of every individual or community involved with WASSOR and in all capacity.
- Integrity: we will interrogate our positionality; we will be aware of our competencies and limitations. We will do our best to outsource and develop the skills we need to be more
efficient. - Transparency: both in our internal environment (decision making, resource allocation and in our external interventions.
- Trauma-informed care: we will do what we can and must to reduce revictimization.
we provide Information
Professionals help
We run organizations where we enroll youngsters as a volunteer so they can live their dreams for themselves and their families.
Awareness
Our Collaborators and Sponsors
