"Encouraging others not only makes them feel good, it makes me feel good, too”- Renee Swope Our monthly Encourager Party gets better month after month! This time, we have a male attendee, Sujit , and new World Pulse sisters…
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,…
Today is: Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. As a person working for gender equality, I work for all people to be able to live…
Few days before I was thrown out of my home with my son, I was at Makoko on land for giving. I had gone door to door asking people to look into their homes and bring out those useful unused things in their wardrobes,box's,…
Children are the biggest victims of Talibanization in Afghanistan; their future’s stolen at a very young age they are forced to choose Taliban Camps over schools. This happens with most of the kids in Southern parts of the…
*My life, My Story and My Medical Practice * I grew up in community called Fonfuka in the Bum sub-division of the North West Region of Cameroon. Throughout my childhood, I could not understand why we never had a medical…
Even though I had been following World Pulse since 2009 when I read Half the Sky where World Pulse was mentioned, I didn’t “take the plunge” to actually make a difference like I so clearly wanted and needed until fall of…
Passing laws, protesting fracking, delivering compelling talks to student clubs and legislators, Climate Reality Leaders 21 college students I mentored with former Vice President Al Gore, impact their survivable future daily…
The lockdown has placed us all indoors and this is a challenging time for the planet as a whole: and doubly so for some, more than for others. The lockdown as a policy measure to contain the spread of COVID-19 has, does, and…
Dear World Pulse sisters, I know I spent some time without having an effective participation with women, but this needs to be changed. I want to be closer to everyone. I have always acted with my body present in social…
The epitome of intense mixture of diverse feelings, I mean, the graveyard more than just a place of burial, is where something out of body dwells. I may try to write it down, but can I bring to you the tale of an unexpected…
Could there be a better way of me spending my end of year 2020 than being with You? Oh Why should it not be You? No institution or organization could have done it much prettier than You Ooh Who could have done it better?…
On a strange sweet day in June 2007 when I arrived Germany, alone, flying from the oppressive, male-dominated, misogynist society of Iraq, to a liberating land, something caught my attention during my taxi trip to the German…
I'm Bianca from Malta. When I was 6 years old I was raped for the first time and as a result I felt like nowhere is safe in this world. My dad used to beat my mum up and since I depended on my dad for sustenance I felt like…
A few months after I set foot into activism, I wrote to a very close friend and asked if they would be willing to support me in my work against gender-based violence. The email I sent my friend was lengthy, and described my…
It was the time of Ramadan and I went to our village home to have iftaar and discuss social issues with local women and children. I along with my family members run ramadan tent in Chittagong where we feed hundreds of men…
Women often carry heavy burdens each day, this takes a negative toll on someone both emotionally and physically. This is to say that, mental wellness is key if we are to compete with men in the struggle to make ends meet.…
I found world pulse to be a family where confidence, encouragement, motivation, empowerment etc is highly maintained. Since I joined this family I've always been relaxed in expressing myself. Things I could not ordinarily…
Sexual violence based on gender is a reality in the world that nobody ignores. I am an African woman in me runs the blood purely Congolese. My country is renowned as the capital of rape in the world, wars is tribal conflicts…
Congratulations! It's a baby girl, said Doctor to parents! The story of almost every girl. When the parents heard this news that she is a girl, first comment from the grand parents came "We thought it's a boy" or "We expect…
I was wondering the moment I opened my eyes and in search for something. I set my blurry eyes across the window pane where the vivid reflection of the sky was coming through. It was mid – afternoon. I was about to close my…
Dear Ladies! I am posting after so long. It's been more than three years I did not post due to some security issues. Three years back I faced some security threat and I postponed my all activities related to child marriage…
I know some of you may not approve of what I did today, but I’ll tell you why I did it. Today, I had just done my usual workout, and it was finally nice, warm, and sunny out, after several weeks of being mostly cold and…
