Kashashu Sitala

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Kashashu is a nurse with major in geriatrics. She has been working at the Saint-Pierre Hospital in Brussels for 8 years and on weekends she has been working at the nursing home “Residence Paloke” providing health care assistance in Brussels for 12 years. Since 2020, she has also been working as co-nurse at people residences. Kashashu has a long experience in the area of health care. In March-June 2013, she worked as nurse geriatric at Saint-Jean clinics in Brussels.

From 2010 to 2013, she worked as nurse at Pacheco Institute in Brussels. From 2009 to 2010, she worked as an interim nurse at “Reflexe Interim” in Brussels. From 2003 to 2005, she worked as health care assistant at San Rocco Residence, Segrate in Milan, Italy. From 2002 to 2003, she worked as health care assistant at the veteran homes in Milan. Kashashu has also experience in the education area.

From 2015 to 2018, she worked as an instructor for nurse students residency program at the Haute Ecole Libre de Bruxelles II ya Prigogine (Erasme) in Brussels. Kashashu received a bachelor’s degree in general pedagogy in 1992 at Lycee Matonge, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Nothing was foreseen or predicted for Kashashu to become a nurse. In 1996, she received a 3-year college degree in History of human sciences at the Pedagogic National Institute in DRC.

In 2000, she travelled to China to join her husband who was pursuing his higher education at the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, China. Her integration was not easy – cultural choc – and by not speaking the Mandarin, it was impossible for her to find a job. In 2002, Kashashu went to Milan, Italy to look for new opportunities and ended up by embarking in a professional training program in the area of health care.

In 2003, Kashashu received -a certified diploma of Assistant health care at l’Angefor Lombardia, Milan. In 2005, Kashashu undertook graduate studies in nursing in Brussels and in 2009, she received a graduate degree in nursing from the Haute Ecole Libre de Bruxelles II ya Prigogine (Erasme). In 2012, she completed her specialization degree program in geriatrics from the Haute Ecole Libre in Brussels. Kashashu was born in Bukavu in the province of Sud-Kivu, in DRC. She is the second of five siblings. She arrived in Kinshasa when she was 4 years old. Kashashu’s mother worked for the DRC national post office and telecommunication service.

She gravited all the levels and retired as a perceptive. Her mother raised and educated her children alone with full of love who had and received everything. She taught her humanities and the sense of job ethic. Kashashu learned her manners and know-how from her mother. When her mother was absent, she took care of her sisters and brothers from her childhood. Kashashu became mother only after 20 years of marriage. This was not easy for her as she faced social pressure giving her Congolese and African origins. Her husband, sisters and brothers supported her during all these years of marriage without a child. Kashashu went back for the last time to DRC, her birth country in 2018.

Durant her stay in DRC, Kashashu met and discussed with her friends and with young girls of her neighborhood and communes. She had the feeling of abandoned and totally neglected society. The young girls and women in her neighborhood and communes shared her views and had the same feeling. The young girls have the feeling of being abandoned and neglected; this is what pushes them to undertake any activity to meet their needs.

The majority of men is unemployed, and women are the ones who often work hard to take care of the household needs by undertaking petty commerce. As a result, many men who have reached the marriage age, are not ready to be engaged with girls for marriage and continue to live with their parents. Those of young girls who had the chance to get married but not able to give birth, are just at the edge of no longer supporting it due to mean-minded look of others and often fall into depression. Kashashu is convinced that only a good support of young girls and women can improve their health and nutritional conditions. Also, her professional path, her experience in the area of health care and maternity indicate that with a good training, supervision, mentoring, coaching and psychology support, young girls and women of the DRC are able to take big responsibilities and become economically independent.

Thus, her vision 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. Kashashu is persuaded that all young girls and women who will receive support 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 improve their economic power and To Effect the right to social change for themselves and other females in the Democratic Republic of Congo.