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. [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
On Thursday, April 14th, Marjorie Margolies, Founder and President of Women’s Campaign International, testified in front of the US Congress’ Appropriations Subcommittee for State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs in order to rally support for the investment in women’s related programming both at home and abroad. In doing so, Marjorie reaffirmed WCI’s commitment to advancing [...]
[ 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 [...]
[ April 30, 2011; 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] Financial Literacy Day at GALS!
The GALS will learn how to create budgets, how to allocate money, and how to optimize their networks to save money and receive in-kind donations.
On Saturday, March 26, the agenda for the GALS workshop included tips on public speaking and how to put “messages in motion” using Flip cams. The girls watched as Monica, a WCI Program Officer, demonstrated some of the traps we all fall into when speaking in public.
Monica stood up to introduce herself. She said, “Uh, [...]
The GALS After-School Advocacy Club, which began meeting in November 2010 and ran until March 2011, developed and implemented an advocacy campaign around the issue of school bullying. We recently asked GALS advocate, Ama, to share what she learned from designing a campaign against bullying. Here are her well thought-out responses:
Ama, in [...]
[ April 25, 2011; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] The U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau hosts an half-day event for young women and girls, on Monday April 25, 2011, at the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia.
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WCI President and Founder Marjorie Margolies will speak. Other invited women leaders include:
Sara Manzano-Díaz, Director [...]
