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Ghana's First Lady H.E. Rebecca Akufo-Addo at YAWC 2019REGISTER NOW
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Annual Continental ConvocationRegister Now
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Kenyan Senator Prof. Margaret Kamar Delivers Keynote at YAWC 2019Register Now
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Why Participate in YAWC 2020?
Young African Women Congress (YAWC) is an annual Pan-African event by the Gender Desk of Excellent Leadership Group (ExLA Group) that is ExLA Group Gender Programme (EGGP).
Why Participate in YAWC 2020?
Benefit from Unrivalled Networking Opportunities with decision makers and stakeholders
Identify new business and project opportunities
To stimulate your thinking pattern on issues of women development
Benefit from our mentorship opportunities with experienced women and men various industries
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Meet the speakers
schedule
A line up of insighful and exciting sessions
- 13:00Reporting and Registration
- 18:00Supper
- 19:00Film Night & Orientation
- 5:30Fitness for Health
- 7:00Breakfast
- 9:00Opening Ceremony
- 11:00First Ladies Panel
- 12:00Lunch Break
- 13:00Presentation
- 13:30Panel Discussion
- 14:40Group Session
- 17:00Supper
- 18:30A Conversation with Prof. Henrietta Mensa Bonsu
- 17:30Gender Ministers Panel
- 20:30Group Session
- 5:30Fitness for Health
- 7:00Breakfast
- 9:00Sahle-Work Zewde Day
- 12:00Lunch Break
- 13:00Parallel Sessions (Paper and Project Presentation)
- 14:00Parallel Session (Panel Discussion/Workshop)
- 17:30Dinner
- 19:00Night of Culture and Entertainment
- Whole dayFun Trip
- 7:00Breakfast
- 9:00Presentation
- 9:30Panel Discussion
- 10:30Group Presentations (Groups 1 – 6)
- 12:30Closing Ceremony
- 13:30LUNCH & DEPARTURE
News & Updates
Get all the news on YAWC Congress and post-YAWC activities
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...
ExLA Group Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Quality leadership advocates and women empowerment powerhouse, ExLA Group celebrates its 10th Anniversary in the year 2021 with some impressive achievements which includes a firm representation in 7 countries on the African continent. The theme for the Anniversary is “Leadership”. This is borne out of ExLA Group’s strong belief that Africa’s transformation can only be...
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...
Election 2020: Let Ghana Win!—ExLA Group
ExLA Group, a leadership-based organisation in Ghana, has reiterated its belief in the people of Ghana to maintain its enviable status as a peaceful country no matter the outcome of the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections. In a statement signed by the Executive Director, Mr. Daniel Osei Tuffuor, the organisation’s stance is based on the...
Monthly Message from the YAWC Network Global President
I bring you greetings from YAWC Network Global Office. I trust that you are keeping well and safe. As we approach the end of the year 2020, we want to thank you for journeying with us. As YAWC Network, we continue to stay true to our objectives as we grow even stronger and stay active. I...
YAWC Network Embarks On “16 Days Activism Against Gender-Based Violence”
The Young African Women Congress (YAWC) Network is set to embark on a rigorous campaign against gender-based violence dubbed “16 Days Activism against Gender-Based Violence”. The campaign which is in line with UN’s annual period of global activism against Gender-BasedViolence under the 2020 UNiTE Campaign Theme: “Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!” will begin...
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...
ExLA Group Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Quality leadership advocates and women empowerment powerhouse, ExLA Group celebrates its 10th Anniversary in the year 2021 with some impressive achievements which includes a firm representation in 7 countries on the African continent. The theme for the Anniversary is “Leadership”. This is borne out of ExLA Group’s strong belief that Africa’s transformation can only be...
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...
Election 2020: Let Ghana Win!—ExLA Group
ExLA Group, a leadership-based organisation in Ghana, has reiterated its belief in the people of Ghana to maintain its enviable status as a peaceful country no matter the outcome of the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections. In a statement signed by the Executive Director, Mr. Daniel Osei Tuffuor, the organisation’s stance is based on the...
Monthly Message from the YAWC Network Global President
I bring you greetings from YAWC Network Global Office. I trust that you are keeping well and safe. As we approach the end of the year 2020, we want to thank you for journeying with us. As YAWC Network, we continue to stay true to our objectives as we grow even stronger and stay active. I...
YAWC Network Embarks On “16 Days Activism Against Gender-Based Violence”
The Young African Women Congress (YAWC) Network is set to embark on a rigorous campaign against gender-based violence dubbed “16 Days Activism against Gender-Based Violence”. The campaign which is in line with UN’s annual period of global activism against Gender-BasedViolence under the 2020 UNiTE Campaign Theme: “Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!” will begin...
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