About Us

Victory for Equality is a foundation dedicated to supporting oppressed communities and promoting greater equality worldwide. The organization emerges from cultural anthropological fieldwork, which reveals that the demand for change comes from within — directly from the local populations themselves. The strength of the foundation lies in its close collaboration with these communities.

Victory for Equality was founded in 2012. The initial set up dates back to 2006, when Caroline Dusée, a Dutch cultural anthropologist, had carried out several studies and project visits on inequality themes in different countries in Africa and South America.

The issues of oppression, inequity and injustice struck her. Convinced of the willingness of the local people and the possibilities for change, she decided to work on support. Coming from an anthropological background, she knew the request for change should come from the people in the communities themselves and not from an uninvited Western based approach.

Many people in the communities, especially women by that time, seemed very willing and driven to change certain phenomena in their social environment.

And so the foundation was born. The foundation is dedicated to Victor Dusée, Caroline's brother who died in a car accident in 1998.

Later on the name was changed into Victory for Equality, to better express the aim of the foundations work.

The name of Victor still captured in the new title and the foundation is still devoted to him.