Here in Yei, we are an entire continent away – 4,865 km/3,023 miles to be exact - from Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv. Yet, despite this distance, women here are already sharing stories about how a faraway war is having a significant and negative impact on their day-to-day lives.

The story of Mariam’s journey was told to a member of our Women for Women International- Afghanistan team.

On Saturday, June 23rd, at least 200 people were killed in northern Nigeria as a result of massive, ongoing violence between the Muslim Fulani herdsman and the Christian farmers in Plateau State. The attack hit particularly close to home for me, as a member of Women for Women International’s staff...

This week, continued violence prevented the world’s youngest country from celebrating its independence day for the third year in a row. Even as leaders attempt to secure peace and stability in South Sudan, its residents and refugees continue to experience the devastating effects of the civil war.

Raja is a courageous Iraqi woman and mother of five raising her children in a refugee camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. She has been internally-displaced and single-parenting since 2016. Before the war, Raja’s husband worked for the Iraqi army, but he was forced to leave his job when ISIS took...

At Women for Women International we use a lot of field-based vocabulary that often has a much deeper meaning and greater implications than a simple definition. In this series, we will be addressing some of these terms in the hopes of giving YOU the tools you need to have conversations about women’s...

Mina* is a forty-five-year-old woman living in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. She graduated from Women for Women International’s program in March 2018 and is working towards creating her own small poultry farm using her newly-gained skills. The future looks bright for Mina, but that wasn’t...

Before the war in Syria, Amina lived with her parents and four siblings. She never had the chance to go to school, however she was happy to live with her parents and four siblings and have their support. Sadly, because her family couldn’t afford to support all the siblings, she was married when she...