Action des Femmes à la Non-Violence (AFN) is a grassroots organization in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, founded in 2008 by women and girls who came together as one to campaign for the abolition of the ongoing gender-based abuse, sexual harassment, torture, and sexual violence against women. With their grant from the Martín-Baró Fund last year, AFN conducted a training of trainers for 21 women to mentor and coach women and young girls to actively participate in the decision-making processes that affect their lives in home, family, workplace, and community settings. About 280 women and girls have since been trained as an extension of these trainings. From this, women have identified two primary concerns for their community: the high rate of child mortality in Kazimia hospital due lack of pediatric beds; and absolute poverty and unemployment. To this end, the community has already begun a project to make 100,000 bricks to expand the hospital and started to clear a road to adjacent towns to help gain access to markets for their agricultural goods, expanding economic opportunity, though they cite a need for access to more raw materials to help finish the projects. With the new grant from the Martín-Baró Fund this year, AFN will expand the trainings into South and North Kivu provinces to further build women’s leadership capacities and mount advocacy campaigns against gender-based abuses.