First Palestinian Receiving the Schwab Award
Maysoun Odeh Gangat, Managing director of Radio Nisaa, awardee of the Schwab award for social entrepreneurs, recently received a scholarship to attend a management course at the Harvard business school. Maysoun gives Womanity a short insight on her experience at Harvard: “As a Schwab Awardee, and the first in Palestine, I was excited to be […]
Empowering Women Since 2005
This year, Womanity celebrates a decade of innovation, collaboration, and learning for women and girls’ empowerment around the world. We are proud to work alongside others to incubate, grow and replicate models, which are allowing women, girls, men and boys to contribute to a more fair and just world. Each year we produce an annual report outlining our work, which […]
Learning Lessons, Improving Impact – Annual Report 2014
Learning Lessons, Improving Impact – Annual Report 2014 2014 proved a pivotal year in Womanity’s work empowering women and girls around the world. The launch of the world’s first award for innovators tackling violence against women, additional WomenChangeMakers Fellows, a pioneering Arabic radio fiction taking the Middle East by storm and more girls than expected […]
Womanity In New York City
To celebrate its 10th anniversary the Womanity Foundation brought together a community of friends, partners and potential partners in New York City. On 15th June, Womanity hosted an evening reception at Le Cirque, East 58th Street, New York to both celebrate 10 years of the foundation and to stimulate a debate with the panel discussion […]
Changing the conversation without changing the channel
News channels are bringing us bleak stories. From terrorism to train derailments, from earthquakes to economic downturns, we have come to associate television, radio, print and social media with messengers of bad news. Moreover, movies, TV series, virtual games and social media are too often assaulting us with violence or numbing us with platitudes. But […]
When a man loves a woman
One in three women will experience violence in her lifetime. So much time, talent, and effort have been committed to changing this terrible statistic, to recognizing the life and humanity in each one of those women. Sustainable change is dependent on reshaping our global culture in a way that teaches men individually to respect women […]
It's All in the Connections: Changing the World With Women One Call at a Time
By Yann Borgstedt and Antonella Notari Vischer As published on Huffington Post 04/24/2015 (www.huffingtonpost.com/yann-borgstedt/its-all-in-the-connection_b_7135054.html?1429879201) Men and women need to join forces on a mission to connect women to the world. For decades we have heard about gender disparities in every field from economics to education, politics to media. Now we have new evidence of a […]
How we made it into the Top 500 NGOs
The WomanityFoundation enters the 2015 Top 500 NGOs ranking. Yann Borgstedt, founder andchairman, tells us what he believes makes for a stellar social developmentorganisation. “In January 2015, Womanity entered the Top 500 NGOs as devised by Global_Geneva. The ranking identifies social development and humanitarian non-governmental non-profit organisations (NGOs), who excel in innovation, impact and sustainability. The search for […]
Aya Mostafa, a woman “worth 100 men” , with a story to tell.
Not every day does one meet a woman you can call “worth 100 men”, a woman who has courageously refuted society’s expectations and stereotypes in order to realize her personal passions, dreams and goals. And when you do, her story is well worth sharing and admiring. Aya Mostafa is one of these women. In a […]
Womanity Award Launch
The Womanity Foundation hosted a debate on the role of men and boys in ending gender-based violence On the occasion of the presentation of the Womanity Award 2014, on May 20, The Womanity Foundation brought together its laureates and luminaries working to prevent violence against women to explore the challenges and opportunities in preventing gender-based violence. The conversation […]