This article was originally published on The Journalist MONROVIA – When Paynesville Mayor Cyvette Gibson wanted to get the streets cleaned in the part of the Liberian capital that she runs, she enlisted the help of everybody she could find. Even the homeless and drug addicts helped to pick up litter. And when Ebola struck […]
This article was originally posted on Citi FM online (Ghana) Sunday 1st November, More than 500 residents of Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis at the weekend participated in a breast cancer awareness health walk to sensitise Ghanaians on the dangers of the disease. The event which was organised by Breast Care International, a non-governmental organisation, brought together hundreds […]
By Amba Mpoke-Bigg, Communications and Fundraising Specialist at the African Women’s Development Fund MONROVIA, Liberia – I was woken from deep sleep by my middle child one night a few months ago. She was burning hot to the touch, whispered that she wasn’t well, then she threw up – as did her younger sister who […]
This story was originally posted on Graphic Online (Ghana) Sixty-nine young women have graduated from a three-month intensive training in vocational skills under the Youth-in-Entrepreneurship initiative. The initiative, which forms part of the Network of Women in Growth-Ghana’s (NEWIG) project, seeks to empower young women to be gainfully employed to make them self-reliant. They were trained […]
Read published article here: on Qz.com BY Amba Mpoke-Bigg Nurse Mariatu Fofana says she should have known better than to touch and hug her father as he lay dying at his home near the capital of Sierra Leone, but she has paid an unbearable price for her error. Ebola had been raging for months by […]
In the year 2011, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) received a grant of £2 million from Comic Relief for the period of April 2011 to March 2014. This was preceded by a grant of £1 million in November 2012, making it a total of £3 million. The framework for the delivery of this project has largely […]
In 2008, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) received a grant of €5 million from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3 on women’s empowerment. The grant was provided for a three-year period from 2008 to 2011 and was implemented as AWDF’s MDG3 Project. As […]
This article was crossposted on Women Deliver By Segawa Patrick, Programme Coordinator, Publich Health Ambassador Uganda and Women Deliver Young Leader “…most people assume that someone with AIDS is immoral. They do not realize that there are other ways of transmission. They simply believe that if someone has AIDS, they must have acquired it through […]
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) conducted a Grantee Recognition Survey in May, 2014 to collect information on the recognition and influence attained by grantee partners and stakeholders in Africa as a result of the remarkable work that they are doing. A questionnaire was sent to 102 grantee organisations in Anglophone Africa and 28 organisations […]
This video highlights the work of African women leaders who participated in the African Women’s Development Fund’s (AWDF) annual CEO Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, from 10 – 12 August 2015. This 3-day convening, which is a part of AWDF’s Capacity Building Programme, focused on Leadership and Communications and featured 21 women leaders from 8 African […]