Ilonga Ayitoma Micheline
Congolese woman jurist specialized in family law, and the presiding founder of Muasi Telema. She leads the conviction that began the organization: when a woman knows her rights, finds calm, and can provide, the whole family steadies.
Founding President · Muasi Telema
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Kinshasa, DR Congo · Muasi Telema ASBL · founded 10 March 2020
Congolese woman jurist specialized in family law, and Founding President of Muasi Telema ASBL — a non-confessional, non-partisan non-profit established in Kinshasa to restore peace and balance in the family. She leads the organization's mission to turn legal ignorance, family conflict and economic fragility into knowledge, peace and self-reliance for women and families in Kinshasa, Bandundu and beyond.
Areas of expertise
Congolese family law — the Family Code, the Law on Parity, marriage, parental authority, separation, inheritance and widows' rights. Family mediation — confidential, voluntary resolution of family conflict outside the courtroom. Women's legal empowerment and civic & legal education in plain language and in the languages women speak. Non-profit governance, safeguarding, and honest, maturity-based reporting.
Leadership at Muasi Telema
Co-founded and presides over Muasi Telema ASBL (registered under DRC Law No. 004/2001), as named in the founding statutes signed in Kinshasa on 10 March 2020. Sets the direction across the four programs: Know Your Rights, Family Mediation, Stand Strong, and Hands That Provide. Upholds the discipline that defines the organization: no invented results, honest maturity labels, confidentiality, and dignity. Stewards governance through the General Assembly and Steering Committee, and a commitment to publish honest activity and finance summaries.
Founding conviction
"The family is the basic cell of the nation, and the woman stands at its center. To care for a woman's health and education is to care for the development of a whole nation."
— from the organization's founding preamble
Education & formation
- Legal training in the DRC, with specialization in family law.
- Continuing formation in family mediation and women's-rights advocacy.
Languages
French, Lingala, and working English.
Selected focus
- Widows' inheritance rights & protection from dispossession.
- Plain-language dissemination of the 2016 Family Code reform.
- Accountable, women-led local structures.
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