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My name is Zahra*. Growing up, my father worked hard to support our family through his shop. But he still had no fixed source of income, and our lives often felt very unfair. My older brother thought that it would be better for me to give up my education and tried to keep me from continuing my...

Cinama is 28 years old, from the village of Nyangezi in South Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. After graduating from Women for Women International’s program in 2016, she became a brickmaker and now runs a successful brickmaking business. She is also employed by Women for Women...

Meet two brave women who are challenging norms, breaking the culture of silence on rape in Nigeria, and making their voices heard.

War took everything from us including my home and my husband’s job. With six children, life became difficult. Horrible. I often sat at home with nothing to do, living with depression. I felt helpless and hopeless.

My name is Hivi. I am 31 years old, married, and have 6 children living in the district of Shekhan.

Stella Keji Edwards is a 30-year-old program participant in Sobe, South Sudan. She resides in the Luzira residential area as an internally displaced person (IDP), and she is originally from Lainya County in the Central Equatoria State of the country. She is a mother to two girls aged 7 and 10 years...

Francine is 40 years old and a graduate of Women for Women Rwanda. She is the mother of six children (two girls and four boys) and lives with her husband in Nyaruguru District.

I was very disappointed and stressed when the new government took place because it was so hard for me to enroll in this program, and suddenly I couldn't learn anything, but when I heard about the resuming of the program, I was very happy.

Twelve years ago, my family and I came from Pakistan to Afghanistan. We are 14 people in total, and I must confess that life hasn't been easy for us. My father was very sick, he couldn't walk, and we struggled to make a living here.

Shireen and her family left Syria in 2013 to escape the fighting. They now live in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

I studied until 3rd grade at the school, but I had to drop out due to 2017 conflict in our region in Myanmar. Since then, I just stayed at home and helped my mother and sisters cook and do housework.

My name is Obaida, and I live in Afghanistan. I’m a mother of six children - two daughters and four sons. My husband used to drive a rickshaw (tuk-tuk) for a living but we were still unable to make ends meet. One day, my husband heard from the Head of the village about Women for Women International...

I am Deborah, a 38-year-old mother of two boys and two girls, aged 6 – 20 years. I was born into a large family of 15 in the Rim community of Barkin Ladi, the local government area of Plateau State. I am the last of the six surviving children out of 13 of my parents. My parents were subsistent...

If someone had told me in the past that I would need to restart my life from scratch, I couldn't believe it. But that is what happened to me when I needed to flee to Poland with my son.

Nema is 33 years old and lives with her husband and five children. In 2016, they fled conflict in Yei River County to the Hai mission area as internally displaced persons.

My name is Angelique Nabinto Mwana Mupopo and I live in Nyangezi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). I am proud to say I am married and the mother of five girls and four boys. Today, I am also proud to say I am a landowner.

My name is Polum and I am visually impaired. I am a native of Malar, Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State in northern Nigeria, and I am married with four children - three girls and a boy, aged three to thirteen years. My father died while I was still in primary school and my mother...

It is too dangerous to tell you my real name. My husband is a soldier in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Every day he is fighting for the survival of our country. We have lost our home, our city, and many of our neighbors, but we will not lose our spirit.

My name is Zainab, Women for Women International (WfWI) participant from Chahar Bagh-e Safa.

For over two decades, the Boko Haram insurgency has significantly affected the lives of thousands of women and girls in Nigeria. Through targeted violence, abductions, slavery, rape, and murders, women have faced insurmountable gender-specific suffering and have been driven out of their homes. Men...