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 […]
5,000 Female Construction Workers Change Brazil’s Landscape
By Antonella Notari Vischer You can find the original article on the Huffington Post website In the small city of Canoas, Brazil, where gender stereotypes are deeply ingrained and 15 women a day are killed because of their gender, you’ll find more than 5,000 underprivileged women working in perhaps the world’s most male dominated sector: civil construction. While […]
Program H: 6 Key Take-Aways from Learning Visits with Promundo Brazil
What does it take for men and boys to reflect about manhood? In the past decades, many women’s rights advocates have learnt that improving the health and wellbeing of adult and young women also requires engaging men, adult and young. Program H is an evidence-based project that started in 2001 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. […]