{"id":508,"date":"2026-10-10T16:58:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monielo.org\/cooperative-les-femmes-fortes\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T17:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:44:04","slug":"cooperative-les-femmes-fortes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.monielo.org\/en\/cooperative-les-femmes-fortes\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Femmes Fortes cooperative (LFF)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A project run by MONIELO <strong>with the support of RC-Fleurus<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cooperative Les Femmes Fortes \u2014 the Strong Women \u2014 will carry a wider economic project, so that these women can sell what they grow without anxiety and, wherever possible, process it and add value to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking for ways to address women's poverty, we turned to the farmland available around Kinshasa. In the outlying areas of the city, where most people live rurally, women carry much of the economic and social weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cooperative will allow them to learn new skills, to master new techniques, and to be paid properly for their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It should also make trade easier. Every year, several tonnes of cassava are lost for want of processing and transport. Through the cooperative Les Femmes Fortes, that harvest will be bought from growers at a competitive price, because it is destined to be processed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A further aim of the cooperative is to give women the means to raise their incomes through better techniques \u2014 growing more, processing more, and selling more cassava products (chikwangue, cassava flour, gari and the rest),<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"g-y850ely\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m10 section-g-y850ely gutentor-module g-gm-module\"><div class=\"grid-container\"><div class=\"grid-row g-gm-item-wrap\">\n<div id=\"col-g-dv97m2r\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m10-col col-g-dv97m2r gutentor-module g-gm-col grid-lg-4 grid-md-4 grid-12\"><div id=\"section-g-dv97m2r\" class=\"section-g-dv97m2r gutentor-single-col\">\n<div id=\"section-g-25ijj5a\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-g-25ijj5a gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monielo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMAGE-2025-04-23-205804.jpg\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"col-g-be0lffy\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m10-col col-g-be0lffy gutentor-module g-gm-col grid-lg-4 grid-md-4 grid-12\"><div id=\"section-g-be0lffy\" class=\"section-g-be0lffy gutentor-single-col\">\n<div id=\"section-g-ir9909m\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-g-ir9909m gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monielo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo_2025-04-23-21.24.35.jpeg\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"col-g-75iz5e7\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m10-col col-g-75iz5e7 gutentor-module g-gm-col grid-lg-4 grid-md-4 grid-12\"><div id=\"section-g-75iz5e7\" class=\"section-g-75iz5e7 gutentor-single-col\">\n<div id=\"section-g-1681c11\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-g-1681c11 gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monielo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMAGE-2025-04-23-205859.png\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La coop\u00e9rative \u00ab Les Femmes Fortes \u00bb donne aux femmes du plateau des Bat\u00e9k\u00e9 les moyens de vivre de leur travail : vendre, transformer et valoriser leur production.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-508","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/www.monielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/508\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}