Adopt a mother
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There is a courageous woman in Senegal, her name is Yayi Bayam Diouf, who lives in Thiaroye sur Mer, a poor suburb south of Dakar, Senegal. She is the founder of the “Women's collective to fight the clandestine emigration”.
The lure of riches awaiting in Europe and a lack of jobs and a future at home, pushes young African men to risk their lives in order to secure a livelihood for themselves and their families.
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Yayi Bayam's son Alioune, who was attempting to cross the Atlantic to emigrate to Europe drowned and despite her sorrow, Yayi Bayam felt a great sense of responsibility towards the mothers of the other young men who drowned on that tragic crossing: It was her son Alioune who had organized it.
Together with 375 mothers, Yayi Bayam has been at the forefront of a grassroots fight to prevent the clandestine emigration towards Europe of young men in search of work and a future. These mothers, who by their own admission were not used to earning a living, realized that they had to become examples of entrepreneurship to encourage their children to not leave their villages.
“if…” recognizes the brilliant initiative of the “Women’s Collective to Fight the Clandestine Emigration", and will support it with a project microcredit to help grow the various small business activities initiated by its founder, Yayi Bayam.
To adopt a mother means to offer her a possibility in educating her own children as long as they are small and to transmit them a profession, that renders them independent as well as their future families.