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Growing up in Basra, Nisreen dreamed of pursuing an education, even though girls were not expected to complete high school. “We lived a very humble life, but I was so happy with my family and my life there,” recalls Nisreen. Her dreams were cut short when her father’s chronic disease left her family...

Unis wanted to enroll in the Women for Women program after she heard an announcement made in church. She wanted to learn how to calculate profits and losses, and how to better manage her business. The trainings have helped Unis achieve both of these.

Since joining Women for Women International, Regina has been working to improve the health of those in her community.

I was at school when the genocide happened. I had eight brothers. Seven of them died during the genocide. And my father too. Only my mother, one brother, and I survived.

Beatrice is a widow raising five children, including two girls and three boys.

Zainab, is a 43-year-old woman who lives in Ogbagbala village in Kogi State, Nigeria. She is married and has six children—three boys and three girls, ages 5 through 25.

Kadire Tahiraj is a mother of three, and lives with her husband and children in a small two room house.

For Valbona, the war in Kosovo destroyed everything she and her family had.

I am 39 years old. I am originally from Guhr province and my father was one of the famous and wealthy people in his province. He had nine daughters and five boys. My childhood was the most beautiful time in my life. When my mind takes me back to my childhood, I feel like I was such a lucky person. I...

I got ill in 2005. I thought it was the worst case scenario, and I don’t like to remember those moments.

I was born in 1975. I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. But I had to stop secondary school when my father died. I was very sad and even angry to have stopped going to school, but I had no choice as my mother was sick and I had to work to support her.

I was a happy woman, wife, and mother before the war came to my front door...

Women Entrepreneurs Are Preventing the Spread of COVID-19

Saratu has faced down fear many times. She and her husband, both farmers, once lived in Maiduguri in Borno State. But a single day was all it took to uproot and unravel their lives. “We heard gunshots and then people started to run in different directions,”Saratu said. “We ran out and hid ourselves...

My name is Hassana, and I am a 38-year-old woman from Maiduguri, Borno State. I am the last child of a family of eight children. My mum had seven children while my father’s second wife had one. I only had an Islamic education, and my parents married me off when I was 15 years old to a man from...

My name is Rahila Godwin and was born 22 years ago as the last child in the family of six children, at Dogon Noma in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna state, located in the northern part of Nigeria. I lost my father while I was growing up, and my parents’ main occupation was farming. They were...

How two sisters transformed their lives

Clementine is a survivor of the Rwandan Genocide but in the aftermath of its horror, had to rebuild her life. She became a participant of our Signature Program, where she found acceptance. Together with classmates, she learned skills to earn an income, and now runs her own business selling goats...