Are you an organisation led by young women, LBTQI and non-binary people, women living with disabilities, or other minoritised group? AWDF will consider applications from interested women led organisations who have been registered for at least three years (before June 2019). AWDF defines a woman led organisation as an organisation whose Board Chair and Chief […]

  AWDF is excited to announce our participation at the 10th Africa conference on Sexual Health and Rights (ACSHR), which will take place from 27th June -1st July 2022 in Sierra Leone. The conference seeks to contribute to policy shifts, funding and solidarity around ending sexual and gender-based violence, promoting abortion rights and advancing the […]

A yellow stranger creeps through the bars of my window Reaching corners yet unknown to this poet The refrigerator hums a dirge somewhere But this one’s back is to me, and I am reminded Of the weight of old souls in old skins or his breath on a stretched skin like mine The global discourse […]

Written by Emitomo Tobi Nimisire I was thrilled to join social media the first time I did, eager to meet people – strangers who could become friends – and share my writing with them. I was fifteen. Social media exposed me to life-changing opportunities and gave me a few sustained platonic relationships (friendships?), but it […]