Author: WORLD YWCA

Amany innovating for change! ✨

Imagine that you have spent your life training to be a free, independent, educated young woman in this world. Imagine that along with that you spent your life dreaming to live with freedom, dignity, safety and pride. Imagine living a life where peace and freedom of movement is still an everyday […]

#SisterhoodBeyondBorders: Valentine’s Day 2019

This year Valentine’s Day was on Thursday. A day for love. We ran a campaign around sharing love through sisterhood which has for so long defined the YWCA movement. As a collective, collaborative and intergenerational movement, sisterhood has meant thinking and acting as a collective. Through our call we sent […]

Finding Sisterhood beyond Borders: A Letter of Love

Dear 2019 St Valentine, or On non-cis-terhood & romance. All around us, there are subtle and not-so-subtle signs that a hierarchy of love exists. There are certain kinds of love that are (and for some apparent reason never clearly communicated) regarded as more important than others. In today’s society, at […]

Naomi’s Journey to Leadership and Social Change

YWCA-Rwanda Transforming Lives Of Adolescent Girls And Young Women ISEZERANO Naomi is a 18-year old girl living in Rwanda. Coming from a family of humble background with eight members (both parents and 6 children), she has been one of the the 5026 beneficiaries of the of the USAID Twiyubake DREAMS-Like […]

Spotlight on Aditi Gupta, Founder of Menstrupedia from India

Young Women’s access to Sanitation and Hygiene: World Toilet Day 2018 19th November marks the #WorldToiletDay . While concerns around sanitation and hygiene are being discussed and solutions are being sought globally, the linkages around young women, sanitation and hygiene and access to toilet and sanitation-hygiene services is one which […]

Spotlight on Naomi

“To my sisters around the world, remember that ‘you were born to stand out and not fit in’” Naomi Avah-Ghittrah Woyengu, who hails from Papua New Guinea, became a staff member of the YWCA Papua New Guinea in 2014. She fell in love with the movement, as she felt a […]

Spotlight on Haneen

“It’s important to give others encouragement, because I am a firm believer that, whatever you give, you get it back!” Haneen is currently a lawyer in Palestine, and a board member of the YWCA Palestine as well. Haneen is passionate on issues of peace, justice, and gender equality because of […]

Spotlight on Sophia Pierre-Antoine

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” When asked for her favorite quote, Sophia Pierre-Antoine gave this one by Audre Lorde and by looking at her life and work, it is clear that this statement has been a […]