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Welcome to the Women for Women International Book Club! This month we’re reading The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad and Jenna Krajeski. In her autobiography, activist and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Nadia seizes and wields her own story to...

Like the masks made at the Women’s Opportunity Center (WOC), the benefits of the large-scale, Rwandan sewing effort are manyfold. Throughout each week, dozens of Women for Women International graduates put their skills to collective use to sew small, folded fabric rectangles as part of a local...

The high number of COVID-19 cases continue to threaten women in Iraq. Since March, women have been in and out of lockdown, carrying the toll of disease, economic hardship, and threats of domestic violence. But throughout that time, they have also continued to carry a torch of hope.

When the Violence Against Women Act passed in 1994, problems such as domestic abuse passed a threshold out of the familial, private sphere to become a community issue with a community-based response. Each time the act—or VAWA—expired, it was reauthorized and expanded to protect more women in more...

The pandemic hit Iraq hard. Women have lived in and out of repeated lockdowns as COVID-19 cases spike, haltingly recede, and spike again. It’s made resuming women’s training a challenge. But women’s futures can’t wait.

Women’s resilience during crisis comes from connections with one another. Besides bringing women together in class for training, Women for Women International helps them form Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA), allowing them to build credit with each other to invest in their businesses...

We spoke with Antoinette Uwimana, the Country Director for Women for Women International – Rwanda to reflect on the journey women in Rwanda have taken since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. After surviving the sexual and gender-based violence that comes with conflict, women were left with the...

Welcome to the Women for Women International Book Club! This month we’re reading The Place Between Our Fears: Life in Congo and Beyond by Argentine Imanirakunda, Dawn Hurley, and Mapendo Ndongotsi. Written by the founders of SHONA Congo, The Place Between Our Fears follows the experiences of the...

On World Teacher's Day, we asked three of our trainers to share their experiences of teaching during a global pandemic.

What’s the key to knowing that your work has an impact on women’s lives? Research and evaluation.

Every woman has the power to transform her own life — and the lives of girls around her. We can pave the way for the next generation of women. For example, in Iraq, women doing online trainings sometimes listen alongside their daughters, to share valuable lessons. In Rwanda, graduates pass their...

2020 marks an important year for women voting in the United States. Along with an election, it’s a century after the passage of the 19th Amendment. But just as women’s voting rights weren’t always the law of the land, neither was their disenfranchisement. As we look below at the history of hard-won...

On Global Handwashing Day, we’re celebrating women who are leading the fight against COVID-19 and other life-threatening diseases, by championing hand hygiene.

What is life like for women in the Signature Program? Sazgar is a participant of the program in Iraq, where many women are attending online trainings due to COVID-19. She shared with us what a day in her life is like, as she cares for her family and does her Women for Women International training...

We are thrilled to announce Clarissa Ward, CNN's Chief International Correspondent, as our newest Ambassador! Our Ambassadors use their platform to raise the voices of the women we serve and shine a light on the issues faced by women in some of the world's most dangerous places.

We stand in solidarity with the people of Nigeria demanding justice, accountability, and an end to police brutality and government abuse of power.

At a time when women’s rights are at risk and conflict continues to rise among other worldwide crises, women leaders are a necessity. Around the world, women leaders have proven crucial to efforts combatting coronavirus and in movements towards equity but especially, we need women who advocate for...

Today represents a huge step forward for women’s rights and power. While women in the U.S. have yet to break that highest glass ceiling, Kamala Harris’s inauguration as the first woman Vice President of the United States represents another barrier broken for women’s leadership.

Welcome to the Women for Women International Book Club! This month we’re reading The Girl with the Louding Voice: A Novel by Abi Daré. Daré’s debut novel follows the story of Adunni, a fourteen-year-old girl growing up in rural Nigeria who longs to continue her education when her father decides to...

2020 has been a year of crisis – but the COVID-19 pandemic has also provided countless examples of how difficult times can bring out the best in us. During this time of social isolation, we’ve seen a resurgence of kindness and community spirit, as people step up to help those around them.