WOW Festival Brazil delivers the WOW Factor
A woman is murdered every 2 hours in Brazil. This was just one of the many shocking facts I learned at this year’s WOW (Women of the World) Festival In Brazil. The 3 day event took place between 16 – 18 November and was WOW’s first festival in Latin America. First launched in 2010, WOW […]
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 […]
Women's Day – Bold For Change
Celebrate with us The International Women’s Day! We are Bold For Change In the past 11 years, Womanity has developed innovative approaches that empower women and girls to become active contributors of their society. Investing in women helps them to attain their own – often neglected – legitimate human rights and effectively produces positive ripple […]
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 […]
The power of “Catalytic philanthropy”: From individual empowerment to systemic change
Research has repeatedly demonstrated that empowering girls and women significantly accelerates progress in developing economies, and that by nurturing women’s education, entrepreneurial spirit and leadership, whole communities thrive. So how can philanthropy and the socio-economic development sector invest in women in a meaningful manner, one that will bring about positive systemic change? At The Womanity […]
The business of unlocking women’s potential
By Antonella Notari Vischer You can find the original article on The Economist website The undeveloped capabilities of women hold huge promise for global businesses The woes of the global economy are not only due to instability, but also because businesses are inadvertently not engaging with nearly half of the global population. With a refocus, we could be connecting with […]
Two Ground Breaking Social Entrepreneurs Join The Womenchangemakers Fellowship In Brazil
The Womanity Foundation is proud to announce its two newly selected WomenChangeMakers (WCM) Fellows in Brazil: Anke Riedel of Casa Angela, a physician whose mission is to humanize birth and improve mortality rates; and Lilian do Prado, co-founder and executive director of Acreditar, a holistic business incubator focusing on youth and women in remote, underserved […]
Welcoming New WomenChangeMakers Fellows in India
The Womanity Foundation is proud to announce its newly selected WomenChangeMakers (WCM) India Fellows and WCM Associate Fellow after last month’s thorough selection process. Based on the jury’s recommendations, the Womanity Foundation is welcoming the following two WCM Fellows and a WCM Associate Fellow to its respectively three and one year support program: Ajaita Shah – Founder […]