Archive for May, 2011

Lucy’s Story: For WCI’s youth leaders

GALS students listen intently to their Skype call with Liberian women
Students in WCI’s GALS program recently had the pleasure of Skyping with a few female counterparts in Liberia.
Lucy was one of the women in that call. After the call, she was so inspired from hearing other people’s stories that she wanted to share her own. [...]

GALS Learning about the World through Skype

On Saturday, April 30, as part of their global awareness education, the students in WCI’s GALS program had the great privilege of Skyping with young Liberian women from our Liberia office!
We’ve asked one participant from Liberia, Office Assistant, Jojo, and three GALS girls from our Philadelphia office, high school students Helena, Simone and Tion, [...]

“We Shall Overcome” — Female Afghan MPs Share Their Journeys

We at WCI were fortunate enough to travel to Afghanistan in March (2011) to conduct a five-day Parliamentary Strengthening Workshop for 52 of the newly elected Afghan women Members of Parliament. Funded by the US Embassy of Kabul’s Afghan Women’s Empowerment Fund, the training consisted of capacity building and technical skills training that aimed to [...]

Teaching Alongside the GALS Advocacy Club

Recently, Women’s Campaign International asked our teaching liaison at Freire Charter, Julie Anderson, to share her experiences working with GALS 2010 graduates on an Advocacy Club. Here are her thoughts:
The Freire Charter School Advocacy Club was started by the 2010 graduates of WCI’s Global Advocacy Leadership Series (GALS). After completing their advocacy training [...]

An Introduction to 10×10: Educate Girls, Change the World

[ May 19, 2011; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] 10×10 Executive Director, Holly Gordon, and Executive Producer, Tom Yellin, will introduce the 10×10 project to the Philadelphia community on Thursday May 19.

Marjorie Margolies will present as the evening’s featured guest speaker.

10×10 is a groundbreaking film, a global social action campaign and an extraordinary opportunity: Investing today in adolescent girls living in the [...]

WCI Partners with World Affairs Council of Philadelphia to host Mika Brzezinski

[ May 20, 2011; 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm. ] WCI will partner with the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia to host Mika Brzezinski, Co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe and author of Knowing Your Value: Women, Money and Getting What You’re Worth.

According to a March 2011 Spotlight by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women’s labor force participation rates are significantly higher today than [...]