Solidarite Fanm Ayisyèn (SOFA) is a feminist organization working to promote and defend the rights of women in Haiti.
More than 30,000 women took to the streets on 3 April 1986 in Port-au-Prince, the country's capital, to demand equal access to fundamental rights, work and health.
[2] Founded on 22 February 1986, its mission is to fight for Haitian women to be freed from subordination, domination, exclusion and exploitation.
It also works to make women mobile and autonomous, by concrete tools such as gran mills, textile workshops and a feminist farm school.
[4][5] After having joined SOFA in 1987,[6] Lise-Marie Déjean worked for the creation of the Ministry on the Status and Rights of Women in Haiti and became its first minister.