Earlier this month, Women’s Campaign International hosted 16 university students visiting from Juniata College. WCI staff presented the students with an overview of the organization’s mission and programs, as well as led an open discussion round-table regarding the issues facing women of all ages in the United States and around the world. In addition to [...]

Please consider this exciting volunteer/coaching opportunity at Women’s Campaign International (WCI)! WCI has recently partnered with New Century Trust to implement our Global Advocacy and Leadership Series (GALS) program for sophomores and juniors from several Philadelphia area charter high schools. We are looking for dynamic Philadelphia professionals to dedicate their time, one Saturday per month [...]

In November, WCI was invited to present at the University of Pennsylvania’s 2011 Penn International Relations Conference (PIRC). This conference is a student-organized, two-day forum attended by Greater Philadelphia high school students with interests in global issues and politics. The conference aims to engage pre-university students in open discussions on current global topics.  This year’s PIRC [...]

As part of WCI’s newest initiative, Building a Coalition for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership in the MENA Region, WCI Program Officer Nickie Séne and Program Assistant Marion Abboud traveled to  Cairo, Egypt to meet with youth and women’s organizations and attend workshops devoted to improving the condition of the nation in the wake of [...]

This past October, WCI Program Officer Nickie Séne and WCI Program Assistant Marion Abboud traveled to Jordan and Egypt to establish connections for WCI’s latest initiative: Building a Coalition for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership in the MENA Region. Through this new initiative, WCI aims to build on past efforts and to create a sustainable [...]

As the Balkans breaks free from being categorized by its communist past and notorious ethnic and religious divisiveness, it is beginning to redefine its place on the international stage. The region is bursting with a renewed energy of progress, entrepreneurship, innovation, and opportunity and WCI is excited to become part of this movement.
WCI team [...]

As Liberia prepared for its second National Election since the conclusion of the country’s fourteen years of civil war, Women’s Campaign International’s (WCI) team in Liberia took the opportunity to organize an outreach and media campaign to endorse the election of women to all levels of political office. Women were instrumental in calling for an [...]

The following is a contribution from Aileen Wallace, a high school intern who visited WCI’s Liberia Office in Monrovia during a six-day trip to the country. The excerpts are taken from a lengthier reflection on her experience visiting WCI’s National Rural Women’s Program in Liberia.
Day One – Arrival
As I took in the fact that [...]