Women's voices

Our Chair Julie sees Womankind’s unique support to partners in action in Nepal as we strengthen three women’s organisations though training and capacity-building.

Babita Basnet, Director of Communication for Equality in Nepal, tells us what she thinks of Womankind’s women’s rights advocacy toolkit and how she plans to use it in the future.

Womankind’s Programme Manager Tsitsi travelled to Ethiopia with Trustee Ros Boughtflower to experience what it means to have a women’s court day in the rural area of Boreda

One of our lovely volunteers, Akshara, has written about the way that her time at Womankind has changed the way she thinks about women’s rights.

In Nepali culture women who are widowed must follow a strict set of rules, such as wearing dull colours or white for the rest of their lives, and are excluded from social gatherings.

Imagine your father pulling you out of school and marrying you off to fund your brother’s education. This is a reality that concerns many young women in rural Zambia.

Our Chair Julie writes about an interesting discussion with Saathi, one of our partners in Nepal, about whether a women’s organisation should fund projects for men.

We ran a two-day fundraising and marketing workshop in Addis Ababa for Womankind’s four partner organisations in Ethiopia: AWSAD, ICEDA, KMG and Siiqqee.

Womankind’s Chair Julie has been travelling in Nepal with our Programme Manager, visiting our partners. First, she meets the Feminist Dalit Organisation.

The Coalition of Women and Girls living with HIV (COWLHA) in Malawi congratulates Her Excellency, Mrs Hilda Mtila Banda for being the first woman president of Malawi.