Empowering Women to Transform Their Communities.
As part of the economic empowerment component of our program with rural women in Liberia, WCI is supporting production of country cloth—helping communities both earn a sustainable living and revive a long standing, traditional art form.
Country cloth is a hand made cloth weaved by setting up looms or wrapping thread around trees to create [...]
From May 23 to May 27, 2011, a WCI team composed of WCI President Marjorie Margolies, WCI Program Officer Nickie Séne, and WCI Senior Trainers Valerie Biden-Owens, Deborah Cai and Susan Ness conducted a training for Afghan civil servants on topics including gender communication, leadership, public speaking, and managing the media from May 23 to [...]
On Saturday, May 21, WCI hosted the 2011 GALS Concluding Conference at International House. Parents and invited guests were treated to a generously donated Chipotle lunch and an inspirational key note address by Pennsylvania Representative Vanessa Lowery Brown. This conference was an opportunity for each of the GALS advocacy teams to present what they had [...]
Following the production of Ruined this past Wednesday by the Philadelphia Theatre Company, WCI’s Executive Director Kerri Kennedy was invited to serve as a guest panelist in an audience discussion based on the issues touched upon by the play, including women in conflict zones and the role of women in post-conflict reconstruction.
The play [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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