ABOUT

Organizational Background

Kundai Rutendo Trust (KRT) is a non-denominational, apolitical, relief, humanitarian non-governmental organization in Zimbabwe, founded by a strong survivor of sexual, emotional and physical abuse, Tatenda Nyakutya. This was after disturbing personal experiences of abuse which has led to her present predicament of chronic heart disease and asthma which is a permanent illness and the need to avert the same problem in the lives of other women and girl children coupled with the realization of prevailing disempowered women, gender imbalances, domestic and gender based violence coupled with limited vocational skills in women. The overriding objectives of the organization include eliminating all forms of violence against women, Gender Based Violence and any other forms of domestic violence, providing a half way home for survivors of abuse, upholding the empowerment of women, through facilitating the acquisition of entrepreneurial coupled with vocational skills and linking them with resource systems as well as providing counseling services to survivors of all forms of abuse. Other objectives include Mapping micro and macro conflicts and maintaining peace coupled with capacity building to enhance self-sustenance and self-reliance through sustainable livelihoods. The organization aims to achieve this through intensive civic education, counseling, capacity building, advocacy, resource mobilization and distribution, cyber campaigns, research and rehabilitation. To achieve the aforementioned objectives, the organization will employ an interdisciplinary approach.  With adequate resources, in the future, KRT hopes to widen its scope of activities to child protection, as well as Sexual and reproductive health related programming.

Strategic Objectives

• To eliminate all forms of violence against women, Gender Based Violence and any other forms of domestic violence and

• To promote the empowerment of women and survivors of abuse through education.

•  To facilitate the acquisition of entrepreneurial skills and vocational skills

• To link survivors of abuse and women with relevant resource systems

• To rehabilitate and reintegrate  survivors of all forms of abuse