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Uganda’s Prof Ssali to Deliver Keynote at the Young African Women Congress 2022 in Kenya
Prof. Sarah Ssali, an Associate Prof. and Dean at the School of Women and Gender Studies, and the Director Centre of Excellence in Notions of Identity at Makerere University is set to deliver the keynote at the East African session of the Young African Women Congress (YAWC) 2022. The congress which is scheduled to take...
YAWC Network Council Chair Pays a Courtesy Call on Kenya Deputy for Public Services and Gender
The Young African Women Congress Council Chair who doubles as the Executive Director for the ExLA Group, Daniel Osei Tuffuor together with the YAWC team in Kenya paid a courtesy call on the Chief Administrative Secretary (Deputy Minister) of Public Services and Gender at the State Department of Gender in Nairobi, Kenya. After briefing her...
YAWC Network Council Chair Calls on First Deputy Speaker of Kenya Senate
The Chairperson of the Young African Women Congress (YAWC) Network Council, Daniel Osei Tuffuor who doubles as the Executive Director of ExLA Group together with Josephine Ndirias, a member of the YAWC Network, Kenya Chapter paid a courtesy call on the 1st Deputy Speaker of the Kenya Senate Rt. Hon. Prof Margaret Kamar, at the...
First Woman Deputy Speaker of the Senate of Kenya, Prof Kamar to Chair YAWC 2022 East Africa Session
The first woman Deputy Speaker of the Senate of Kenya, Hon. Prof. Margaret Jepkoech Kamar will be the Chairperson for the Young African Women Congress (YAWC) 2022, East African Session which is set to take place from 22nd to 25th May 2022 at the Kenya School of Government, Lower Kabete, Nairobi under the theme, “Network...
YAWC NETWORK EMBARKS ON A 10-DAY CAMPAIGN AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
The Young African Women Congress (YAWC) Network is set to embark on a massive campaign against domestic violence in Africa. The campaign which is scheduled to begin from 24th April – 3rd May 2022 will see a number of activities under a the hashtag #StopDometicViolence. Key among the activities will be the massive sensitisation on...
YAWC Network Liberia Chapter held a day-long Christmas Outreach
YAWC Network Liberia Chapter on today held a day-long Christmas outreach at the Christian Relief Ministry, a local orphanage and underprivileged home in Duport Road- Paynesville, Liberia. As part of the day’s event, members of the organization donated food and non-food items to the Management of the Institution ahead of the Christmas celebration. Items donated...
Nyanquellah Livingstone: Reforming the Downcast- YAWC Network
Nyanquellah Livingstone is a member of the YAWC Network, Liberia Chapter. She is a Nurse, Mental Health Clinician and an Evangelist. Livingstone runs a Non-profit Organization named ‘Raising Godly Generation’ in Liberia. The organization aims to support substance abusers, street children, people with mental health problems and disadvantaged women and girls in the community. Raising...
YAWC Network Leadership To Hold Extraordinary Summit On Cameroon Crises
The Young African Women Congress (YAWC) Network Leadership will hold an extraordinary summit to discuss the on-going crises in the two Anglophone regions in Cameroon. This follows recent killings of children who were in school and it is believed to be related to a long standing misunderstanding between the regions. In a letter written to...
#justice4uwa:Uwa’s Killers Found
Uwaila Vera Omozuwa, a student of UNIBEN in Nigeria who was raped and killed in church will find the justice she deserves even after her death. The death of Uwa came as a shock and a disheartening one as such, judging from how she was cruelly murdered. As the case was followed up by the...
Teenage Pregnancy and Early Child Marriage
Early Child Marriage and Teenage Pregnancy are two issues that have regrettably come to stay in our local communities. They have become so common as to the norm in some places with rural and coastal Ghana recording quite alarming rates. It has not yet been established why their occurrence seem to be prevalent in these...
SEX FOR JOB: A lady recount her experience
One faithful morning, ten years back, I was on my way for an interview. While in a public vehicle, I met up with a classmate I have not seen for over five years. We talked throughout the journey, and I told her I was on my way for an interview, hoping this time around, I...
Nyanquellah Livingstone: Reforming the Downcast- YAWC Network
Nyanquellah Livingstone is a member of the YAWC Network, Liberia Chapter. She is a Nurse, Mental Health Clinician and an Evangelist. Livingstone runs a Non-profit Organization named ‘Raising Godly Generation’ in Liberia. The organization aims to support substance abusers, street children, people with mental health problems and disadvantaged women and girls in the community. Raising...
Uganda’s Prof Ssali to Deliver Keynote at the Young African Women Congress 2022 in Kenya
Prof. Sarah Ssali, an Associate Prof. and Dean at the School of Women and Gender Studies, and the Director Centre of Excellence in Notions of Identity at Makerere University is set to deliver the keynote at the East African session of the Young African Women Congress (YAWC) 2022. The congress which is scheduled to take...
YAWC Network Council Chair Pays a Courtesy Call on Kenya Deputy for Public Services and Gender
The Young African Women Congress Council Chair who doubles as the Executive Director for the ExLA Group, Daniel Osei Tuffuor together with the YAWC team in Kenya paid a courtesy call on the Chief Administrative Secretary (Deputy Minister) of Public Services and Gender at the State Department of Gender in Nairobi, Kenya. After briefing her...
YAWC Network Council Chair Calls on First Deputy Speaker of Kenya Senate
The Chairperson of the Young African Women Congress (YAWC) Network Council, Daniel Osei Tuffuor who doubles as the Executive Director of ExLA Group together with Josephine Ndirias, a member of the YAWC Network, Kenya Chapter paid a courtesy call on the 1st Deputy Speaker of the Kenya Senate Rt. Hon. Prof Margaret Kamar, at the...
First Woman Deputy Speaker of the Senate of Kenya, Prof Kamar to Chair YAWC 2022 East Africa Session
The first woman Deputy Speaker of the Senate of Kenya, Hon. Prof. Margaret Jepkoech Kamar will be the Chairperson for the Young African Women Congress (YAWC) 2022, East African Session which is set to take place from 22nd to 25th May 2022 at the Kenya School of Government, Lower Kabete, Nairobi under the theme, “Network...
YAWC NETWORK EMBARKS ON A 10-DAY CAMPAIGN AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
The Young African Women Congress (YAWC) Network is set to embark on a massive campaign against domestic violence in Africa. The campaign which is scheduled to begin from 24th April – 3rd May 2022 will see a number of activities under a the hashtag #StopDometicViolence. Key among the activities will be the massive sensitisation on...
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