#InHerOwnWords                   My name is Gloire Amuli Masheka. I’m 20 years old and I’m the younger of two daughters in our family.   MY BACKGROUND   One morning in 2014, while I was on holiday at[...]

Working in technology, I know the amazing opportunities it creates and how it can allow you to realize your dreams and make an impact on the world. But, unfortunately, many girls don’t have that view of technology. They think it’s boring or[...]

Honestly, I feel a bit lost sometimes: because of the history of our country, women don’t have top priority in anything. Over the past ten years things have been changing gradually, but it’s still part of the culture to hear women saying,[...]

  W4 is proud to feature Ola, Director of the Yalla! School, our field project in Lebanon offering vital education to the children of Syrian refugees.      Where are you from?   The Hama province in Syria.   What prompted[...]

        What if… is a powerful thought. In everyday life, we use it to create change, improvement, a better future. And the power of ‘what if’ has increasing resonance around the globe. This week, for example, the UN[...]

  Girls Excel, W4's partner in Cameroon, provides girls with health education and access to menstrual hygiene   For me, growing up as a young woman in Cameroon, menstruation has always been a taboo topic. People here dread talking[...]

  W4 interviews Hena Gul, Administrative and Human Resources Manager of W4’s field partner, SAWERA, about her team’s groundbreaking work for the empowerment of women and girls in Pakistan.            SAWERA — the[...]

  Ask any of her staff and they will tell you that Ghida Anani is a mission-driven social entrepreneur, a strategic thinker, and a leader who knows how to encourage and challenge her team. Beyond her network of supporters, however, Anani is[...]

  Designed to empower and educate women around the globe, the SmartWoman Project is an innovative mobile learning platform, launched by the social enterprise Change Corp. Today, 300 million women worldwide have no access to a mobile phone and[...]

    The Afghan Women's Writing Project (AWWP) works to promote Afghan women’s empowerment and economic independence by strengthening their writing and computer literacy skills, all the while encouraging the inclusion of[...]