Dr. Nancy Kimfuidi Moyo

Designation Country Managing Director & Field Coordinator Education M.D. Email

Dr. Moyo is a medical doctor with a specialization in imagery. She is currently Associate Professor at the University of Kinshasa (UNIKIN) Medical Imagery Service, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where she has been working for 10 years. She also works three days per week since 2008 as chief of the Imagery Unit at the COGEMO Clinics in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. Dr. Moyo is a member of the French speaking Black Africa (SRANF) Radiology Society and French Radiology Society (SFR) since 2008. She undertook professional training in Imagery Services in Senegal in 2012 at the FANN University Hospital and in France in 2015 at Abbeville Hospital.

Dr. Moyo received her tree-year university degree in radiology in 1998 at the University of Kinshasa, DRC. She received her Medical Doctor degree in 1997 from the Medicine Department at the UNIKIN. From 1999 to 2006, Dr. Moyo worked on her residency and received her specialization degree in Imagery in 2007 at UNIKIN. In order to take care of her school fees, Nancy did her university studies in two phases. First, she studied at the three-year Institute of radiology techniques (ISTM) at UNIKIN and she received a three-year degree in radiology.

After receiving her degree in radiology, she worked as a technician in radiology at the UNIKIN; her salary and the money received from her petty commerce helped her to pay her tuitions at UNIKIN. Nancy was born at Mbanza Ngungu, a city located at 95 miles from Kinshasa, the capital of DRC, in Kongo Central Province.

She is the second sibling of a family of nine children. She did her primary and secondary studies in Mbanza Ngungu, where she lived until she was 18 years old. During her childhood, while on vacations, Nancy was assisting her mother in her family farms. Nancy’s father was a carpenter, and her mother was a farmer who cultivated food crops.

The agricultural products and the products from the carpentry were all sold in the local markets. In spite of the hardworking of her father in the carpentry and of her mother in farming, her parents were receiving a small income after the sale of their products. However, despite the small income received, her parents continued to work hard in order to educate their children, which allowed Nancy to finish her secondary school and thus, to receive her high school degree.

Nancy’s father died when she was 20 years old. In the absence of her father, her mother was left alone to take care of the education of her nine children. This was very difficult for her. In light of this situation and in order to help her mother, while still student, Nancy started a petty commerce in order to pay her own school fees and that of her brothers and sisters.

From that time, Nancy understood well that she had to work very hard to undertake high education to allow her to find a job which could ensure her a good pay, that will allow her to be autonomous, take care of her mother as well as her sisters and brothers. Dr. Moyo underlines that for the DRC which has millions of young girls and teens unemployed, without incomes and very often uneducated, and thus, incapable to take care themselves, the improvement of the quality of their live requires a timely support in diverse domains, such as the empowerment of their economic power, the improvement of their health and reproductive conditions, the improvement of their knowledge on how their reproductive system works, sex and health education, in order to help them avoid practices that may compromise their future live on the socioeconomic area as well as on their future maternity.

Dr. Moyo indicates that her studies in radiology and in medicine with specialization in imagery, while it was a long road tainted with financial difficulties, allowed her to find a good job that permitted her to be a single woman well equipped and financially autonomous. However, her statute of a long-time single woman without children at the age of fifties, was a source of laugh in her neighborhood and in her professional environment, that made her not to be a woman in full bloom despite her financial autonomous. She was, without wanting it, overrun by the drive of having children, but this was difficult with her age. She only become a happy woman and filled with joy after giving birth to twins, a girl and a boy, through a medically assisted procreation.

Furthermore, Dr. Moyo knows so many women, of whom some of them have had no reproach in the pass, who are humiliated by their families in law and communities due to their infidelity, and as they lack resources, are incapable to solve their problems, are frustrated and finally often fall into depression. Thus, her mission and goal for “All Women’s Maternity International, Inc.”, is To Empower women, teens and young girls, To Equip them to advocate for their health care and reproductive rights and To Educate them. Dr. Moyo hopes that all young girls and women who receive assistance through “All Women’s Maternity International, Inc.”, will gain education and know-how in order not only to determine and declare their own individual choices, but also to have a strong economic power, a support and an easy access to reproductive and procreative health centers, and To Effect the right to social change for themselves and other females in the Democratic Republic of Congo.