Shining Nyota Foundation 26/10/2025 ## **Annual Report & Financial Statements** ## **SHINING NYOTA FOUNDATION** ## **Empowering women to reduce poverty** Registration No. in England & Wales: **1192396** Company Registration: **CE023895** Shining Nyota Foundation 26/10/2025 ## **Report of Trustees for the year ending 31 December 2025** ## **Our beneficiaries** Migrants’ women of African descent leaving in England & Wales Rural women of the Democratic Republic of Congo ## **Our Mission** We are determined to reduce poverty by investing in women ## **Our values** We put people at the heart of what we do. ## **What we do** **In England & Wales:** We provide guidance, advice, translation, advocacy, skills, and necessities such as hygienic pads and nappies to migrant women of African descent. ## **In the Democratic Republic of Congo** **We empower women** through the promotion and protection of gender equality and women’s rights. **We empower Congo rural women by** strengthening their capacities in agriculture, farming, food security, nutrition, and the raising of livestock and poultry and other income-generating activities. We provide numeracy and literacy classes and promote hygiene, clean water, sanitation, and conservation of nature as a living space for man ## **Our values** - Our beneficiaries are at the center of what we do - Provide quality services to our customers and value their views. - We want women to become financially independent - We only focus on our mission, work effectively and - We continually learn and develop new ways of doing things - We liaise with other organisations and women’s charities, to advance knowledge, share experience and help more people - We protect our charity’s money by spending wisely and only what is allowed by the charity’s governing document and policies. - We ensure that our volunteers and money raised matter 2 Shining Nyota Foundation 26/10/2025 ## **Report from chair and chief executive** Years 2024 – 2025: Our charity was not able to do much due to lack of finance. Actions made in England (London) are: - Advocating for housing reparation, referral and housing benefits - Advising on public sector that women are untitled too. - Referring to the right department such as social services and others - Translating and helping with colleges and university admissions - And many others. Actions to be made in the DR Congo are: - Actions are due next year 2026 -2027 due to lack of financial support in 2024-2025. Filled in by Eliane Mukeba (Trustee and founder) 3