Effect Change for Impoverished Women!
A World Without MARGINALIZATION
faith in the One who never tires nor wearies.
Imagine living in a world where all you Are treated with dignity and respect
About Tongasoa
TONGASOA (pronounced toon-ga-sooh) is a Malagasy word for ‘welcome’. As used here, it means ‘welcome home’. This home is a place that is safe to be who you are, whoever you are. Safe from all forms of abuse and tyrannical behavior that prevent you from being the person God made you to be, the person you truly are and continue to become. You’ve had a long journey. Please come in, take your shoes off, put your feet up!
Our mission
To nurture and equip leaders of transformation to strive for justice for and liberation of the poor and the marginalized and to effect change in those areas of society that prevent people, especially impoverished women, from achieving the fullness of their humanity.
Who We Are and Where We Serve
We are you. We are people who care about people.
We recognize that some of us who have come to be who we are, have done so with certain advantages—maybe it was our education or perhaps it was a family that understood and accepted us for who we were. Maybe it was our faith. Yes, faith in the One who never tires nor wearies; faith that there are enough people like us that we might find a helping hand has had lots to do with it.
The founders of Tongasoa have escaped from our oppressors just enough to enable us to hold our heads above the surrounding stream of pressures to conform and to swim out of the current to start Tongasoa. Like a dry spot on which to build a fire before the nighttime comes, a place where we are all safe and regarded with dignity and respect, accepted for who we are no matter who we are, to fight for freedom, to help others to find their unique pathway home. Tongasoa! You are most welcome! You are now with ones like yourself. We are you, and you are us.
Tongasoa shares information for your mind, inspiration for your heart, and sustenance for your soul. We help each other as we strive on our own and more collectively to change the world around us. Together, a win-win synergy results when we collaborate in partnership with one another and in community with other like-minded people.
Tongasoa … shakes off the shackles of oppression. We prepare people who are more local than we are and hopefully indigenous to the physical area and cultural context to bring member-participants together for information-sharing, skill-building, motivating, and coordinating like-minded, nonviolent action to better free themselves for individual, familial, and community growth and healthy development.
Supports our brothers and sisters in their struggles to do so. Through our time, talent, and physical resources, we support the ongoing development of brothers and sisters everywhere as they throw off the trappings of tyranny and stand straight, unfettered by the chains of their domination and those who marginalize them. And, shares the encouragement of our triumphs and the lessons of our failures across communities, nations, regions, and the world to better transform the world into a place of equality, inclusion, shared responsibilities and privileges, decision-making, resources, and leadership.
Tongasoa … shakes off the shackles of oppression. We prepare people who are more local than we are and hopefully indigenous to the physical area and cultural context to bring member-participants together for information-sharing, skill-building, motivating, and coordinating like-minded, nonviolent action to better free themselves for individual, familial, and community growth and healthy development.
Supports our brothers and sisters in their struggles to do so. Through our time, talent, and physical resources, we support the ongoing development of brothers and sisters everywhere as they throw off the trappings of tyranny and stand straight, unfettered by the chains of their domination and those who marginalize them. And, shares the encouragement of our triumphs and the lessons of our failures across communities, nations, regions, and the world to better transform the world into a place of equality, inclusion, shared responsibilities and privileges, decision-making, resources, and leadership.
Let's Work Together!
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