Human Right Teaching
Based on the UDHR and people’s needs, we explore human rights together, empowering everyone to know, defend, and promote their rights as a human rights educator.
Advocacy & Mobilization
Equipped with human rights knowledge, we become human rights defenders, mobilizing communities and advocating for the effective realization of these rights.
Inclusion &Implementing
Based on Article 1 of the UDHR, equal dignity makes inclusion essential to realizing human rights. We remove barriers so everyone can access and enjoy the same rights.
Acting replicator
With the vision that Human Rights are for Everyone, we promote the Human Rights Replicator approach to create continuous impact in communities.
About Us
Present in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, APIEM works to promote inclusion and dignity for all, guided by the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). We work with and for communities, with a particular focus on children, blind and visually impaired people, women, and other vulnerable groups, through human rights education, inclusion, advocacy, and community mobilization.
Our Vision: To contribute to an equal and resilient world, grounded in respect for human rights and dignity for all. Through our Human Rights Replicator approach, we encourage people to share their knowledge and experiences, transmit human rights values, inspire action, and amplify impact within communities.
Human Rights Education Approach
Aligns with Woven Teaching’s Human Rights Education approach: Learning ABOUT Human Rights, Learning THROUGH Human Rights, and Learning FOR Human Rights.
We see human rights education as a transformative process that goes beyond knowledge. It enables people to understand their rights, experience human rights values, take action, and share their learning with others to create lasting impact.
At APIEM-DRC we empower people to learn about human rights, experience them in practice, act to promote and defend them, and replicate their knowledge and experience to amplify the impact....
Inclusion: the Heart of Our Work
For many blind and visually impaired people, exclusion begins in childhood. Some are kept at home, excluded from education and community life, and forced to depend on begging to survive. In many communities, having a blind child is still associated with bad luck, a curse, or witchcraft. Without access to education, many grow up believing that they will never have the opportunity to work or build an independent life.
Blind children are often separated from other children and left out of games and social activities. Their dreams and potential are too often sacrificed because of barriers created by stigma, discrimination, and lack of access. Through inclusion, we believe that these barriers can be broken The Universal Declaration of Human Rights promotes and affirms the inherent dignity and equal rights of every human being. Guided by these principles, we believe that human rights and dignity are for everyone and that it through inclusion that, these barriers can be broken. We promote inclusive education and social inclusion, creating opportunities for blind and non-blind children to learn, play, participate, and grow together because disability should never limit a person’s rights, dignity, dreams, or future.