Namaste, Salam, Shalom, Peace, Paz, Pyeongwha, Heping, Heiwa, Pace, Mir, Over the past 16 years, I am honored to say that I developed a plan for WOMEN to unite the people of the world and lead a new global peace movement! I…
So you will agree with me that it has been quite a year! We made resolutions and were optimistic for so many things for the year. Little did we know that one thing would cripple all those plans in a heartbeat? It’s no new…
RBG, Sept. 19,2020 She held on as long as she could, cancer eating her body, chemo that would have felled a lesser woman. She must have felt us all leaning on her, and stood as long as she could, like a great tree in a…
I dedicate this story to dearest Nini Mappo, I was having a difficult time getting started with my first story. I saw your story because I followed you. First, big congratulations on the award for speaking your truth about…
African Americans...What Will We Be Called Next? This is not written from archives, research or academia. This is my life experience...part of my story. Again...Nini Mappo provided a spark that lit the flame. African…
There is an astonishing man behind World Pulse. You should know him. For over a decade, Ankur Naik – World Pulse’s technical architect - built World Pulse alongside me. His hands have invented, tested, curved, created, and…
World Pulse means everything to me. This is because freedom from violence and suppression of women and girls across this planet means everything to me. For years I have been working in my country to stop the violence, only…
I want to thank each of you who are out in your spaces, your communities, your neighborhoods, your cities, your countries living and building peace. I see you and I acknowledge you; the grandmother sitting on the front porch…
My name is Gumato. I was named Gumato since I was born on a Friday. I just tured 21, two days ago. I was born and brought up in a nuclear family with a very humble background. My mum and dad did not go to school. I have…
We are suddenly in a different time, a time of health crisis, with all of the other crises we have been working on to create change together. In the middle of International Women’s Month we are suddenly not carrying out our…
My vision for a Peaceful Nigeria still centre around Education for SELF RELIANCE. This will go a long way in building a Nation where Peace and Justice shall reign. ENDSARS started so well and was going on so fine. Endsars is…
In celebration of the International Women's Day Theme, 'Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change', Girls Voices Initiative engaged girls from Divine Vision Academy (Guyidna Community), in a tech innovation project…
Freedom is her birth right Freedom of choice, let her choose what she wants to become, give her the independence to read, speak, write and decide. Don’t try to cut her wings when she chooses to fly with her intentions…
Life has a way of bringing people down to its lowest ebb but creativity and determination have ways of lifting people from the pit of life to the pulpit of power. Few years ago, life entangled me in a web of untold hardship…
World Pulse began with a dream of this visionary woman who dared to listen to women's imprisoned voices more than the noises of the status quo. We are surely grateful that Jensine took hold on her dream and birthed it into a…
As we pause to talk about menstrual awareness and menstrual hygiene, one of the basic is how do women relate to their menstrual flow. Most women I get to work with, are either in total dislike or they wait every month for…
The Joy of every mother is to have safe delivery and see her children grow even in the worst conditions. African womanhood has had a big share of the pain of loss of children who needed to take care of themselves. The risk…
What if you knew that within World Pulse there are 70,000 of us together here from 190 countries, and what if you knew that there are thousands of women in other women's groups too, in discussion of what to do from here on.…
Over 45 days and India has been under the nation wide lock down, a reaction to the scare of Corona virus. As a few cities recently opened, one is stuck by the long and very long ques outside the liquor shops. On the morning…
who inspires me in my existence? often times I rest the thought to seek honest assistance the very ones you trust for support, can’t seem to find their way and often deport and put up resistance. Encouragement and free…
It's almost a month since the Aspire Reinvent conference wheen myself and Karen Quinones-Axalan received a standing ovation. Yet, it took me this long to bring my acknowledgement and gratitude to this amazing sisterhood (I…
Let's build a cottage full of peace and love together. A nest where only nightingales talk and trees breathe. Let its misty air touch our hair and let the rain make our faces full of love. In the beauty of the morning, the…
I was then 26 years old, living in a council tower block. A qualified nurse, married to a handsome man, with two lovely children. An outwardly ideal family. But also an abused wife. I knew what to do, where to go to report,…
On September 11, 2001, at 6:00 PM, IST, I was getting my hands decorated with henna. It was something I wanted for long – the very idea of designs etched onto your palms with the exuberant smell of the wonder leaf was a…
‘Me too’. He was my child hood friend. Our parents taught at the same teachers training college. I came from a family of 8 and his family was about the same number. As family friends, our parents kept us busy and in…