Posts Tagged ‘Empowering Women’
Women’s Empowerment Programming is Everywhere
When people ask us, “Where is World Relief’s women’s empowerment programming?” Our answer is: It’s everywhere. Transforming how men and women live, relate and honor God in their relationships is at the very heart of what we do. We recognize that women and girls don’t exist in isolation. They live, they work and they go…
Read MoreShe Dreams Courageously: One Woman Who is Making it Happen
One woman dreams courageously and is changing the lives of people in her community, the U.S. and around the world.
Systems Change in Seattle
As World Relief Seattle’s Executive Director and an immigrant myself, I have seen the razor-thin line between security and insecurity that many immigrants experience. Never was this more clear to me than this year, as our office rallied to serve those hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. As the pandemic wore on last year, we…
Read MoreBreaking Barriers in Burundi: Women Who Make It Happen
World Relief opened the door for women to lead and they said yes! Read how one woman in Burundi is building a more equal world and creating change for her entire community.
Read MoreCrisis in Sudan: Responding to Violence and Empowering Women
How World Relief has responded to violence in and empowered Women in Sudan
Read MoreSeeing the Gift in Women
World Relief’s commitment to Gender Equality
Read MoreNeema’s Plight
In an area known as Mile 46 in the Kajiado District of Kenya, the Elangata Wuas Primary School sits beside a grove of trees. On a seemingly ordinary Friday in July, the whole school — boys and girls, teachers and the headmaster — leave their lessons and gather to welcome visitors outside in the schoolyard.
Read MoreVoices From the Field: Cambodia
Today is International Women’s Day—a day when women around the world are celebrated, their impact recognized, and their God-given potential affirmed. Today, we envision bolder, brighter futures for the world’s women.
Read MoreFrontline Report: International Day of the Girl Child
I grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where at the time, my parents were serving as missionaries. My best friends were girls from local families.
Read MoreFrontline Report: Democratic Republic of Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Referred to affectionately as the Heart of Africa; rich in resource, culture and beauty. The nation has some of the greatest concentrations of valuable raw minerals in the world, and Eastern Congo, in particular, is fertile and ripe for agricultural development.
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