Ponder this: more than 100 million people could be lifted out of poverty if rural women had the same access to productive resources as men.   This is only one of the potential benefits of investing in rural women highlighted by U.N.[...]

W4 welcomes guest contributor, Tithe Farhana! Farhana is from Bangladesh where she is working as Communications Coordinator for Plan Bangladesh and Co-Manager of the women's rights advocacy group, Bangladeshi Women's Voice, while also pursuing[...]

W4 welcomes Patrice Binwa Aganze, Communications Director for W4’s incoming field partner in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Alpha Ujuvi Collective!   In a country in which an estimated 1,150 girls and women are raped every day[...]

Katherine is one of the graduates from W4’s field partner program in the Philippines, Children of Asia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cebu in October 2011. Despite the challenges of[...]

Inclusive development and the creation of a better world for all will be the major focus of this year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities. In recognition of this important day, Women’s Worldwide Web proudly endorses the work of[...]

Women’s Worldwide Web welcomes back 2011 Teach for India Fellow and guest blogger Devanik Saha, who recounts his experience teaching bright, ambitious girls at a government-run, low-income girls’ school in New Delhi.   Devanik is, along[...]

Women’s Worldwide Web interviews Valentina Monti, director and producer of “Girls on the Air” (2009), an eye-opening documentary portraying the story of Humaira Habib, founder of the first independent radio station, Radio Sahar, in[...]

Women’s Worldwide Web welcomes guest blogger Kim Ha, a French-born citizen of Vietnamese descent, who talks about her recent trip to Vietnam as a volunteer with Enfants d’Asie-Children of Asia, a field partner of Women’s Worldwide Web.[...]

Women's Worldwide Web welcomes guest blogger, Devanik Saha.   Devanik is currently serving as a Teach for India Fellow in New Delhi where he will spend the next two years implementing innovative teaching methods in a low-income, state school[...]

Few foreigners who travel to Thailand are familiar with the town of Mae Sot. Lying along the northwestern border with Burma, Mae Sot appears to have none of the excitement and appeal of Bangkok or Chiang Mai. Yet for those fleeing conflict and[...]