Giving Tuesday to end violence against women
Giving Tuesday. Help Womanity end violence against women Thank you very much for your generosity on Giving Tuesday, we’ve extended our match funding campaign for two weeks to help make gifts made in the holiday season more valuable than ever. This year on #GivingTuesday, Womanity is asking for your support to fight widespread violence against […]
New generation of WomenChangeMakers Fellows in India and Brazil
Welcome the new WomenChangeMakers Fellows The flagship program, which helps social entrepreneurs become a catalyst for large-scale social change for women and girls, has selected four social enterprises to join the WomenChangeMakers (WCM) Fellowship in India and Brazil. Following a high number of nominations from WCM program partners and a rigorous selection process, the Womanity […]
Womanity Annual Report 2016 – Accelerating progress
“I was learning to code and felt so empowered” Sometimes a simple remark tells us so much. After completing the first year of Womanity’s computer coding training, Zulikha, a schoolgirl in Afghanistan, told us, “When I was learning to code, I vividly remember thinking ‘I can do pretty much anything now’. I felt so empowered.” […]
Call For Nominations Womanity Award 2018 – NEW DEADLINE
Do you know organizations creating safer urban environments for women? It is our great pleasure to announce that nominations are now open for the 2018 Womanity Award, which supports and scales proven, innovative, and replicable approaches that prevent violence against women. Please spread the word about this opportunity to qualified candidates. About the Womanity Award […]
Tips for Women Online Activists
“To build your movement: grow awareness, increase knowledge and co-create tools” As winners of the second Womanity Award with Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Mexican based Luchadoras and Sandía Digital are coordinating a new entity called Siemprevivas [“Always Alive”], the new name for the localization of the Take Back The Tech! campaign in Mexico. Siemprevivas […]
Women’s Day: Aurelia Ovan
WOMEN’S DAY: AURELIA OVAN, QUIET FORCE AND WOMANITY’S PILLAR … Womanity: Who are you, Aurelia, and what made you work for Womanity? Aurélia Ovan: I have a Master in sociology and have worked for the Womanity Foundation almost since its creation. I am an optimist by nature, a quiet force able to handle many complex […]
Valentina Di Felice #BoldForChange
Valentina Di Felice – Women’s Day Valentina is Womanity’s Head of Operations. Since 2010, she has contributed to design, shape and supervise the foundation’s media programs in the MENA region and the educational program in Afghanistan. Since 2016, she has been involved in designing the foundation’s strategy and its outcome framework. She currently supervises ad-interim […]
Womanity stages creative disruptions at Geneva Book and Media Fair
Womanity at the 2017 Geneva Book and Press Fair The Womanity Foundation has convened intrepid writers, journalists and activists to a roundtable discussion on “Arab Women and the Media: A Cultural Revolution” on 27 April 2017 from 3 to 4:30 pm in the Arab Cultures’ Pavilion at the Geneva Book and Press Fair held at […]
Tiana Vilar Lins #BoldForChange
TIANA VILAR LINS – WOMEN’S DAY Tiana Vilar Lins joined Womanity in 2014 and runs its WomenChangemakers Program in Brazil, helping social entrepreneurs to become catalysts of social and systemic change, by empowering women within their communities. Womanity: Who are you Tiana? Tiana Vilar Lins: I am a searcher, an unquiet person trying to release […]
Design “B100 Ragl” Season 3
How to design an animated fiction series “We brought together a stellar pool of talent and expertise of illustrators, designers, filmmakers, senior media operators and representatives of civil society organizations from across the region. Our ambition is to include a rich variety of voices to make “Be 100 Ragl 3” a thought-provoking reflection of the […]