International Women’s Day: Womanity’s Favorite Picks to Feel More Empowered!
International Women’s Day represents an opportunity to honor women’s accomplishments, raise awareness about gender inequalities, advocate for more global support for women and girls and to strengthen the ties with the impactful women in our lives. UN Women and United Nations marked the 8th of March this year under the theme of: “DigitALL: Innovation and […]
A more equal 2023
Dear Womanity friends, As the new year starts, we reflect on the year gone by and look forward to a more equal 2023. Life with Covid started to feel like the new ‘normal’ to many people across the world. Continued economic problems, rising inflation and cost of living, the war in Ukraine, energy crisis and deepening of climate […]
Say Yes to Women
How one organisation from Brazil and one from Cape Verde plan to raise awareness about women’s rights and access to justice to prevent domestic violence against women and girls One of our main goals at the Womanity Foundation is to promote gender equality and women’s rights. Our program Womanity Award focuses on prevention of violence […]
FAITH BREAKS BARRIERS ACROSS COMMUNITIES TO PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
Violence against women and girls, and in particular domestic violence, is a major global issue. One in three women globally has been subjected to either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence in their lifetime (World Health Organisation). Intimate partner and sexual violence is the result of factors occurring at individual, family, community and wider society […]
A window to the outside world
SOWCoders Bootcamp, 8th – 23th February 2020 At Womanity we strongly believe that technology catalyzes connections, helps overcome physical and geographical boundaries and has the power to bridge realities which are very different from each other. Our program Girls Can Code (GCC) works with four schools in Afghanistan to provide 16 to 19-year-old girls with coding skills, […]