Mother’s Day is a time for taking note of the unique strength of women, and for celebrating the impact that women have on their children, their families, and their communities. Through our work, WCI strives to celebrate the strength of women on a daily basis. We recognize the innate skills, strength, leadership, and determination of women who are already providing [...]

On March 31st, WCI’s Girls’ Advocacy and Leadership Series (GALS) conducted its fourth workshop on Financial Literacy.  WCI uses a two-pronged approach, teaching the girls about personal financial management, as well as business and budgeting skills that they can use to develop their advocacy campaigns. Since 2009, WCI’s GALS program has been working to increase [...]

MENA program team Nickie and Marion just arrived in Tunis where WCI is holding the first of a series of three sub-regional meetings across the region. ALWANE committees from Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Tunisia will gather in Tunis April 30 and May 1. Just a few days later, May 3 and 4, the Yemen, Palestine, [...]

Members of the Yemen Country Committee for Women’s Campaign International’s ALWANE Coalition recently attended Springboard’s Women’s Development Networking reception hosted by the British Council. The committee, part of WCI’s new Middle East North Africa initiative, is one of 17 committees in countries across the Middle East and North Africa region that have come together to [...]

On February 9th, WCI held an exciting networking event in Liberia for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women program.  10,000 Women is a program which provides business and management education to women business leaders around the world.  So far 42 countries, including Afghanistan, China, and India, have benefited greatly from the events and curriculum provided to [...]

WCI’s ALWANE Yemen Country Officer, Ahmed Al-Yemeni, participated in the creation of a newly released documentary about Yemeni women’s struggle and achievements in the last year.  It was publicly screened for the first time on International Women’s Day. In support of the film’s release, WCI’s Yemen Committee attended the event to announce the launch of the ALWANE Coalition [...]

As WCI’s MENA program builds momentum, it is exciting to hear from our country officers about exciting developments in the region.  Yesterday we received a moving update from Donia, our Tunisian country officer, about a day of activism in her country on International Women’s Day.

On March 7th, the day before International Women’s Day, a religious [...]

Last week, Women’s Campaign International staff traveled to New York to meet with 25 Nigerian representatives of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, as well as attend a panel discussion on women’s empowerment under Sharia Law, sponsored by KARAMAH: Muslim Lawyers for Human Rights and Women in Islam, Inc.

Business and Professional Women (BPW) [...]

While most of the girls came to the second GALS session knowing how to use social media in their personal lives, many did not realize the full potential of using social media tools for advocacy. Through different interactive presentations and activities,GALS participants quickly learned how they could use Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, and YouTube to create [...]

It was only about ten minutes into the program and Carmeeka already had a revelation.  It was just the introductions—the girls were sharing their reasons for participating in the program and what they hoped to do in the future, and the coaches were sharing the paths that led them to where they are today.  When [...]