English language as a tool of communication for bukavu women

The irresistible development of the world independence expressed by the term “globalisation” compels world to interconnected, as said by Zygmunt Bauman ( a sociologist and professor at Varsovie and Leed Universities), “Globalisation is inescapable and irreversible”, we are already living in an interconnection and interdependent world at a planetary scale. Whatever can happen somewhere affects the future of people everywhere else. Whenever steps to take in a given place have to be assessed, reactions in the rest of the world have to be taken into account as well. For instance, no sovereign state, however wide, populated and rich it may be, is able to protect alone, its life conditions, its security its long term prosperity, its social model or the existence its inhabitants. Our mutual dependence operates at a world scale (….)”.
In fact, it’s difficult, even impossible, to be interconnected if there is no common communication tool which allows interlocutors to listen and understand one another. This tool is obviously the English language, which plays this role at the world level. Indeed, language is a tool which vehicles culture, living ways, economic and political systems. It should thus be acknowledged that English has become today a language used worldwide and that English words can be noticed in sectors such as computer science, telecommunication, etc. as was (and still is) Italian in music). Even the new technologies often use English in the globalisation context through internet and its components.
Since 1951, English has been used in aviation on demand of OACI. Besides, scientific research works are more and more written in English, and other are simply translated into English.
In some non English speaking countries, English in used when they have to speak about economics of finances, otherwise they use their own languages including a great number of English words to the extent that the massage is hardly understood by those who do not speak English. Definitely, the language of finances is English.
Even though Chinese is the most important language in the world, numerically speaking, with 1.2 billion speakers, English comes first in the commercial domain and it is the official language in many countries. It is one of the six languages of the United Nations namely Chinese, Spanish, English, Arabic, Russian and French.
Given the universal use of English and the socio-economic supremacy of the United States, which generates a cultural hegemony, English has undoubtedly a language of universal communication. No other language has ever served this end, except Latin, from the end of the Antiquity to the Renaissance period.
The predominance of English replaced that of French during the 20th century due to the two world wars at to the strengthening of the United States’ political and economical weight.
Bukavu population in particular, and that of south- Kivu in general, is greatly involved in commercial activities and is concerned way the effects of globalization given its geo-strategist location, that is in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With three English speaking neighbour countries namely Rwanda, Zambia and Tanzania. The population of Bukavu also carries out very fruitful commercial exchanges with the U.S.A, China, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Indonesia, Turkey, Kenya and Uganda. Considering its import statistics, the Province of south- Kivu in general, and the town of Bukavu, in particular, strongly need to speak English, the language of world. It should be mentioned that the existing classic structures have not happened to integrate this issue which should have consisted in promoting the leaning of English to women, children and to the other members of the community who do not have access to formal training such as the one organized in universities and other specialized institutions where languages are taught.
Therefore, Anglo Congolese Alliance ACA DRCongo intends to contribute to the promotion of cultural values in general and the improvement of English language in the south Kivu province in particular, thanks to its English center named “Bukavu International English Center/BIEC ”whose project in partnership with different local institutions consists on training Bukavu’s women in terms of English language from 2014 up to then and to intensify exchange and communication between learners and other women users of the English language all over the world to fight violence against women and promote the gender in the province . At the end of the program, each Correspondent will have gained speaking skills,understanding skills,writing skills and the personal confidence she needs to be an inspired leader in her own life, for her community, nation, and the world. She will become a loudspeaker, bringing attention to those that are voiceless and telling the stories that our world needs to hear.