{"id":1709,"date":"2015-04-20T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asdhostingservices.com\/awdf-2\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2015-07-03T17:00:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T17:00:37","slug":"east-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/east-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Akina Mama Wa Afrika\" href=\"http:\/\/www.akinamamawaafrika.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"en\">Akina Mama wa Afrika<\/a>\u00a0(AMwA)<\/strong>\u00a0is an international, pan-African, non-governmental development organisation for African women that creates space for African women to organise and network. As part of its programmes, AMwA established the\u00a0<strong>African Leadership Institute<\/strong>\u00a0in 1996, a network for African women for professional support, advice, information and expertise. It also convenes an annual intensive leadership training programme to build working partnerships amongst young African women activists. Today, the institute has trained over 6,000 young African women.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/Akina-Mama-wa-Afrika.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4738 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/Akina-Mama-wa-Afrika.jpg\" alt=\"Akina Mama wa Afrika\" width=\"705\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Akina-Mama-wa-Afrika.jpg 705w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Akina-Mama-wa-Afrika-450x301.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Akina Mama Wa Afrika\" href=\"http:\/\/www.akinamamawaafrika.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"en\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/take-action\/#make_a_donation\">Join us in supporting work like this by making a contribution to AWDF today!\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-we-give"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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