I was 39 years when suddenly one evenning of the 28/11/2012 I tripped and fell down in my parlour and when my husband picked me up. He realised I couldn't stand nor sick. In the panicked he called a Dr friend who examined me…
With a fork covered in both of my hands and wrapped under my blouse, I rushed out of the house and headed for an uncompleted and abandoned building not too far from our house to kill myself, until two boys came to rescue me…
No parent can be an expert on all aspects of child development or on the most effective ways to support a child at every age.Every year April , the UN and other partners choose to recognise this month as the National Child…
I have been experiencing discrimination of rural single mothers affected by HIV/AIDS by local authorities and other surrounding people. The main reason is poverty which makes them be stigmatized. It is very chocking to see…
Despite how much you have read about stress and tried copying the anti-stress mechanisms, you are still stressed. Nothing works! WHY? OH…why? First of all, how do you know that you are stressed? What symptoms do you have? Do…
Why The Butterfly Strategy Is Relevant For Tech Startups Abiola Bonuola Years ago, a couple attended a funeral of a friend’s father when they encountered a very peculiar situation at Owode. Let’s name this couple, FF and…
Hello Sisters! Would you be happy to put a stop to the violation of women and girl’s rights in Sierra Leone by giving them a Bigger and Louder Voice to Speak? My organisation Future Leaders Initiative SL [ https://future-…
I am an educationist and a humanitarian. I began teaching the underprivileged children in rural Pakistan when I was just a 13 year old girl, during 24 years of my work I have been facing a lot of threats and attacks for my…
By Ariel Gold and Medea Benjamin Unable to wash away the reputational bloodstains from the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and with the war in Yemen having become a quagmire from which the Biden…
The Women's Monument Tour was inspired by a post written by Nini Mappo , which includes the works and concepts of artist Sethembile Msezan e in reference to monuments being absent for women. So I started The Women's Monument…
The word “AMMA” as we call “MOTHER” in my mother tongue is so meaningful and highly in-depth. It is not required that we need to have a biological relationship to call a women as mother. Any women who spread the rainbow of…
Newspapers and social media in Kenya are awash with news of cases of women being murdered , some by people they know , others by people they met on social media. Sadly , the blame by society is often on the female with…
The Mary Kay Foundation (TMKF) is currently accepting applications for the Domestic Violence Shelter Grant Program to deserving women’s domestic violence shelters across the United States. The Mary Kay Foundation is…
My name is Aminata Devine Umah Kamara. I am a proud 26 year old Sierra Leonian Future Women's leader. I am a Senior Customer Care Representative at Easy Solar, where I have worked for the last 4 years, and an upcoming…
Sexual and gender-based violence is ubiquitous and exists across the peacetime-wartime continuum. In both contexts, SGBV is a representation of the dominance and aggression exercised by the patriarchy over women’s bodies.…
Gender equality is one of the issues that is causing issues in our society today.If a woman is successful at the age of 30 and she is not yet married she will receive critics .Does being successful has anything to do with…
We as a Organization is grateful for our level of work even in the absence of money. The issue about GBV/SGBV is coordinations. The child who was a abuse by a gentle in her community that cause her to experience internal…
The Women's Monument Tour was inspired by a post written by Nini Mappo, which includes the works and concepts of artist Sethembile Msezane in reference to monuments being absent for women. So I started The Women's Monument…
I have been part of multiple forums and a board director or an advisory board on many organisations in India. Women Empowerment has become a new gender game and a new concept where women are elevated to a level where they…
The worldwide pandemic has given all of us an opportunity to reflect and to reprioritize what is important in our lives. It stopped the hamster wheel of our activities. We all had to practice the pause. The quarantine forced…
I provided food and accommodated about 5 women who have become homeless and stopped taking their HIV medication because of description from relative as a result of their HIV status. This is very sad, women are so…
It is said that :"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing". So it is on this premise, that I will shout my vision. But before then a little about my journey interacting with Peri menopausal…
Since the COVID -19 Rape is on the increase in my country. Our organization has been carrying on massive awareness and reporting cases case as well. But we are limited in handling most of these cases because of lack of…
Oh no it is unbelievable! Men are still raping even 10 years old child. Yesterday we got a call from a police ♀️ Officer who said a good citizen told him about this child who was raped by her Aunty Husband. Thanks to our…
