Women outside ALVF's Maroua center, in the extreme north of Cameroun.
ALVF: Association de Lutte contre les Violences faites aux Femmes (Association for the Struggle Against Violence Against Women)
Created in response to the violent deaths of three women in the capital city of Yaoundé, ALVF works in various ways to address pervasive—but largely undocumented—violence against women in Cameroun. In just over a decade, ALVF has grown from a single office that provided a safe space for women survivors of violence to a national group that manages outreach centers for women in three different regions of the country, including the Muslim extreme north. Beyond providing individual women with the refuge, support, and information they need to confront violence in their own lives, ALVF also fights for the eradication of violence from the lives of all Camerounian women through advocacy, action-research, and public education. IWHC has supported ALVF since 1993.
