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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...
COMMUNIQUE ON YAWC NETWORK GLOBAL LEADERSHIP MEETING ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
The Young African Women Congress (YAWC) Network has held an emergency meeting to discuss matters of domestic violence as they keep manifesting in the media on a daily basis. The meeting was to discuss rising matters and also find workable solutions for dealing with domestic violence across the continent. This was also at the backdrop...
YAWC 2022 EAST AFRICA SUB-REGIONAL CONGRESS TO BE HELD IN KENYA
The Young African Women Congress (YAWC), an annual residential Pan-African women’s congregation is set to host an East African sub-regional session in Nairobi, Kenya in May this year. This was contained in a statement signed by the YAWC Network Council Chair, Mr Daniel Osei Tuffuor who doubles as the Executive Director for the ExLA Group,...
5th Young African Women Congress (YAWC) to take place in August 2021
The Young African Women Congress (YAWC), an annual Pan-African women’s congregation organised by the ExLA Group Gender Programme, a subsidiary of ExLA Group is set to take place this year in Accra, Ghana. The 5-day residential congress is scheduled from Sunday 22nd to Thursday 26th August, 2021 under the theme; “Africa: The Empowerment We Want”....
International Women’s Day – YAWC Network Uganda Chapter Visit St. Joseph’s Girls SSS Nsambya in Kampala
The YAWC Network Uganda Chapter on the 8th March 2021 celebrated women’s day in a special way, by visiting the students of St Joseph’s Girls SSS Nsambya in Kampala. The team led by the Global President Ms. Jackie Nyapendi and the Vice president of the Ugandan Chapter Mrs. Aturinda Ireen Mutekanga were received at...
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...
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...
COMMUNIQUE ON YAWC NETWORK GLOBAL LEADERSHIP MEETING ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
The Young African Women Congress (YAWC) Network has held an emergency meeting to discuss matters of domestic violence as they keep manifesting in the media on a daily basis. The meeting was to discuss rising matters and also find workable solutions for dealing with domestic violence across the continent. This was also at the backdrop...
YAWC 2022 EAST AFRICA SUB-REGIONAL CONGRESS TO BE HELD IN KENYA
The Young African Women Congress (YAWC), an annual residential Pan-African women’s congregation is set to host an East African sub-regional session in Nairobi, Kenya in May this year. This was contained in a statement signed by the YAWC Network Council Chair, Mr Daniel Osei Tuffuor who doubles as the Executive Director for the ExLA Group,...
5th Young African Women Congress (YAWC) to take place in August 2021
The Young African Women Congress (YAWC), an annual Pan-African women’s congregation organised by the ExLA Group Gender Programme, a subsidiary of ExLA Group is set to take place this year in Accra, Ghana. The 5-day residential congress is scheduled from Sunday 22nd to Thursday 26th August, 2021 under the theme; “Africa: The Empowerment We Want”....
International Women’s Day – YAWC Network Uganda Chapter Visit St. Joseph’s Girls SSS Nsambya in Kampala
The YAWC Network Uganda Chapter on the 8th March 2021 celebrated women’s day in a special way, by visiting the students of St Joseph’s Girls SSS Nsambya in Kampala. The team led by the Global President Ms. Jackie Nyapendi and the Vice president of the Ugandan Chapter Mrs. Aturinda Ireen Mutekanga were received at...
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