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“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” More than 100 years ago, Susan B. Anthony and leaders of the women’s movement in the United States celebrated the bicycle’s role in helping women access new opportunities and...

"I learned from Women for Women International training that it is good to have more than one source of income,” says Patience. Patience, who recently joined WfWI-Nigeria’s yearlong training program, has already put this lesson into action. She owns a small stall at the local market where she sews...

There is an ancient saying in Afghanistan: Drop by drop, a river is formed. This is why we at Women for Women International believe that when we come together, we can create sustainable change for women and communities around the world. One of the many ways in which our supporters join us in our...

We are excited to share with you an interview with Beverly Thompson, a Women for Women International super-supporter who recently visited Rwanda. Can you tell us a little about yourself? My name is Beverly Thompson. I am an engineer, a scholar of peacebuilding and development, and a WfWI supporter...

“I just kept faith in myself, and knew we would get through it,” my mother used to tell me, when I asked how she got through a difficult childhood. Mother’s Day always brings up a mix of emotions. I miss my mom, who passed away six years ago. And I feel blessed to be a mother at all. Ten years ago...

Congratulations to Dr. Denis Mukwege for being named one of TIME's 100 most influential people! The 61-year-old Nobel-prize nominated Congolese gynecologist founded the Panzi Hospital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 1999 to help women and girls survivors of sexual violence and rape...

“In modern wars, it’s dangerous to be a woman. During the Rwandan genocide, up to 500,000 women were raped, sexually mutilated, or murdered. Today, across the Middle East, roughly 7,000 Yezidi women have been kidnapped and subjected to sex slavery at the hands of ISIS. Genocide, conflict, and...

In a small, garage-like building in northern Iraq, Seve wakes up each morning not knowing how she’ll provide for her six children. Her husband is injured and unable to work. Their only income comes from the few vegetables her 12-year-old son can sell. Two years ago, they and thousands of other...

August 3rd marks the commemoration of the 2014 genocide perpetrated by ISIS against the Yezidis in Sinjar and Nineveh Plains, Iraq. It has been two years since the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” conducted a genocidal campaign against the Yezidis in their homeland of Sinjar, in northern Iraq. During...

“We have survived a war. There are still kids who don’t know if their parents are alive, don’t have anything to eat or books to go to school. So the fact of becoming [an] Olympic champion is just huge for all of us.” – Majlinda Kelmendi (judo gold medal winner, Kosovo) From Chicago to Sydney, in...

WfWI's new corporate partnership for September Women for Women International (WfWI) is proud to be partnering with global lifestyle and jewelry brand Wanderlust + Co for the Actually I Can campaign, celebrating their 6th year anniversary and the spirit of supporting women, running from September 9...