Today I know I can lay my heart in my hands, but for so many years I had been outsourcing my need of love, belonging, and appreciation because of my belief that the force that bestows these blessings is outside me and not…
Dear World Pulse I am privileged to know YOU because relationships like what I share with you is hard to find these days. How can I qualify who you are to me? Let me attempt this difficult task in the following lines. I was…
Ignorance is bliss, but someone has to do the dirty work. I am happy that we are in a space where we can discuss, explore, scrutinize. To reframe the narratives of Africa. When I was seven years old, I found myself sharing a…
Forty-something years on, the pain is still strong! Actually, the pain grows stronger as the years roll on. If I have to tell you a story of a family with a brother living with disabilities, I would tell you a tale of an…
Let me take you through my beautiful country, Cameroon where our women have an age-long tradition of advocating for peace and security. Thrusts in West and Central Africa, Cameroon is bound by Equatorial Guinea to the…
To what I consider to be my best judgment, the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks; I decided to break the cycle of fear and talk. For the first time, I admit, as a journalist and Sudanese woman, I was living…
Growing up in the small town of sapele, in Delta State , I was very dutiful to my mother who was a trader. My mother had 7 daughters in a bid to have male children. Although she had three sons later, being the younger wife…
In the peaceful country of Cameroon, it was a daily routine to have citizens wake up every morning and go about their daily activities and house chores, prepare their children for school and go to their farms, business and…
On 3 December 2018 I was invited at a certain local school’s graduation and prize giving day to speak to parents and guardians about instilling confidence in their children. As I watched the children perform, I could clearly…
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…
My Name is Achieng Violet, I come from a fishing village in Busia, on the shores of lake Victoria which is shared by by the 3 East African countries of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania. I am Kenyan and ex my husband is Ugandan. We…
I am a Cameroonian by birth,Lived and grew up with a single Parent(my mum),together with my 3 other siblings and happened to be the only child who was by Grace lucky to see the four walls of a classroom till I had my…
This post is about the notebook Parcham created for raising funds. Each year for three years now, we have chosen a theme to write about to raise awareness of the issues close to our heart and used it to raise funds for our…
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…
I walked through that door scared and with uncertainty. I watched those eyes looking piercingly at me. I felt the butterflies in my tummy; I felt the weakness on my knees. My feet couldn’t carry me anymore; my confidence…
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…
I wish I could talk about the good without talking about the hard, but I can’t. You admire me now but have no idea what I have been through. It's true what they say "we sometimes don't look like what we have been through''.…
I wish to start by acknowledging the vision and efforts of my dad who stood by me and ignored the pressure from the society and the path of ordinary life in the firm belief that I should get an education to be able to stand…
My Name is Valdeen Tamara Shears, I am a 43-year-old mother of seven, grandmother of one and I am fed up of being scared. Scared of dying at the hands of my abuser. Scared of becoming my country's next statistic. Scared of…
This was one ofthe disgusting thing that have happen to me and a horrible thing that can happen to any woman ,you can't imagine theemotional trauma I have been in, sharing not only myhusband but a room as with your co-wife.…
Blackout attacked my community like pests My future in darkness, companionship ruined. My heart, a hole of bitterness and rage, Sweating in dark pain The Berlin blockade can’t measure up To the solid fence this dark age had…
I am a single women, Who belongs to a minority of Pakistan? Lives in the third most dangerous country of the world for women And I am girl’s education activist You can imagine my life, I would work 20 hours a day for years…
Working with girls in Sierra Leone gives Fatima Babeh a glimpse of what is possible for her country. “I envision these girls becoming the confident women of tomorrow.” My vision for peace and security has been shaped by my…
Vanuatu, for the last 10 years has not had any women in its national parliament. Voters are not voting for women! This is a conflict, it's a violation of peace towards Vanuatu women! I believe that we have exhausted all…
On the day of International Day of the Girl Child I share a poem I wrote to depict my life after I walked out of a marriage where I was beaten physically and crushed in my spirit and the light at the end of the tunnel. I…
