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Phionah Musumba – WOMAN of ACTION™

February 6, 2022 by Team Celebration

A Celebration of Women™ is elated to Celebrate the Life of this woman leader, one that is taking every resource available to her for the further empowerment of girls with education and women with skills for enterprise development. This woman is so devoted to her cause that she left Kenya alone, leaving three children of her own behind to seek assistance in developing an education centre for the children of her community. Her dream is to buy a 50 acre piece of land on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: WOMEN of ACTION™ Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, acelebrationofwomen.org, African girls, African women, KENYA, NGO, Phionah Musumba, Take Action, woman, Woman of Action, women for women, women helping women, women taking action, women.

Lillian’s Story: Abducted at 13 by LRA, Uganda

October 15, 2014 by Team Celebration

Lillian’s Story of Abduction Lillian was abducted by the LRA when she was only 13 years old. The year was 1998. She was living in Pajuele village in the Kitgum District of northern Uganda with her family. Many from her village had gathered to sleep together in a single house for fear of being abducted. She was lying with her parents on the crowded floor when she awoke from sleep and suddenly became aware that many soldiers were at the door. They kicked the door in and began ordering … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AFRICA, Uncategorized, WOMEN GENDER EQUITY ISSUES, YOUTH of ACTION™ Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, abductions, acelebrationofwomen.org, Africa, African girls, African women, Lillian's Story: Abducted at 13 by LRA, LRA, Uganda, Ugandan girls, Ugandan women, Violence against Children

International Day of Rural Women, OCT 15

October 15, 2014 by Team Celebration

15 October is the International Day of Rural Women! #Ruralwomen play a catalytic role in the achievement of transformational economic, environmental and social change. UN Women calls for action on the glaring inequality of women in the agricultural workforce and is developing programmes that empower rural women worldwide. Get stories and facts from our #Beijing20 package on women and poverty HERE. The last few years have seen historic achievements in reducing the number of people who … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AFRICA, ASIA, CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL AMERICA, EURASIA, EUROPE, FORMER SOVIET UNION, MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AMERICA, OCEANIA, SOUTH AMERICA, SPECIAL DAYS TO REMEMBER, Uncategorized, WOMEN that "Share in Positive Action" for Our World!, YOUTH of ACTION™ Tagged With: #‎RuralWomen‬, A Celebration of Women, African girls, education of girls, girls, Impoverished girls in Malawi, International Day of Rural Women, OCT 15, rural women, UN Women, woman, women empowerment, women., ‪#‎Beijing20‬

PTSD, The plight of FGM in The Gambia, Africa

July 26, 2014 by Team Celebration

Slowly changing, but unmoving: The plight of FGM in The Gambia, Africa A Stop FGM – Female Genital Mutilation sign in Bakau New Town, Gambia gives a phone number to reach for those women who want talk with someone about FGM. Image: Nichol Brummer/Flickr London, UNITED KINGDOM, WESTERN EUROPE: Rainy season in upcountry rural Gambia, is green. It is a warm, inviting blend of a thousand greens; a mixture of beautiful, calm, peaceful mingling greens. As I look around and soak in the reality … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AFRICA, FEATURED, RECOVERY, Uncategorized, WOMEN GENDER EQUITY ISSUES Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, acelebrationofwomen.org, Africa, African girls, African women, American Medical Association, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Female Genital Mutilation, female mutilation, FGM, girls, Guinea, KENYA, NIGER, PTSD, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, the Gambia, The plight of FGM in The Gambia, the United Nations, the World Medical Association, Togo, Uganda, UN, women., World Health Organization

Why Do Some Girls Count more than others?

May 8, 2014 by Team Celebration

The young girls had finished their school work and settled in for the evening. It had been a long weekend of studying for everyone. On Monday, the entire school had an important exam on the workings of government. It was a tough test, so all the female students - over 200 of them - had spent the past two days focusing on doing their best. Like young people all over the world, they had many things on their minds; family, friends, and perhaps the future with all its promises. But that Sunday night … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AFRICA, CA-- USES, CONTRIBUTORS, Uncategorized, YOUTH of ACTION™ Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, acelebrationofwomen.org, Africa, African girls, African women, kidnapping, Nigeria, schoolgirls, The Examiner, violence against women., woman

UNICEF and MONUSCO Taking Action against Rape in the Congo!

June 29, 2013 by Team Celebration

Senior UN officials condemn recent rapes of young girls in eastern DR Congo June 2013 – Two senior United Nations officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have condemned the recent cases of rape of young girls in the eastern province of South Kivu as “unacceptable” and called for an end to such abuse. Over the past two months, nine young girls aged between 18 months and 12 years old have been admitted to Panzi Hospital in South Kivu with marks of violence on their bodies … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AFRICA, CA-- USES, CONTRIBUTORS, Uncategorized Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, Africa, African girls, African women, Barbara Bentein, civil society organizations, Congolese girls, DRC, girls, Government of DRC, MONUSCO, rape, rape capital of the world, rape is unacceptable, sexual assault, Taking Action, Unicef, violence against women., women.

“Nothing should stop me,” says Ethiopian schoolgirl

May 23, 2013 by Team Celebration

WFP’s school meals programme has benefitted millions of school children across Ethiopia over the last 19 years and currently serves some 650,000 students in 1,800 schools in different parts of the country. Fatuma is one of those children. Gewane, ETHIOPIA – A daily round trip of three hours along a dusty road might not appeal to many, but for schoolgirl Fatuma Hamedu, the journey shows just how committed she is to changing her life. “I travel this distance every day,” says Fatuma. “I do … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AFRICA, CONTRIBUTORS, Uncategorized, WOMEN that "Share in Positive Action" for Our World!, YOUTH of ACTION™ Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, Africa, African girls, educate girls, Ethiopia, Gewane, girl power, girls, girls’ education, global education, powerful girls, youth of action, “Nothing should stop me, ” says Ethiopian schoolgirl

Mother’s Day is three days away, Take Action for Lasting Effects!

May 9, 2013 by Team Celebration

Mother's Day is three days away… Flowers will not last a week but the impact of helping to support the transformation of a girl has a lasting effect for generations to come. There are few greater gifts to be given than investing in the future of a girl! This Mother’s Day, you can dramatically change the lives of thousands of girls in Nigeria. In the northern regions of the country, nearly half of all girls are forced into marriages by the age of 15. Most of these girls are denied an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AFRICA, CA-- USES, Uncategorized, WOMEN Taking ACTION, YOUTH of ACTION™ Tagged With: Africa, African girls, educate girls, girls, global education, International Women's Health Coalition, IWHC, Maternal health, Mother's Day is three days away, Nigeria, Nigerian girls, stop child marriage, Take Action, Take Action for Lasting Effects!, women taking action, Women's Health

Ann Lesley Cotton – WOMAN of ACTION™

March 31, 2013 by Team Celebration

A Celebration of Women™ is elated to Celebrate the Life of this woman, one female soul that sold bake goods to make her dream into a reality. After visiting a part of our world where she experienced a reality whereby girls were commonplace only in lower school, and once secondary education became a requirement, more than half of the girls vanished. Her investigations told her that this fact was not due to her first thought, that girls stayed home to work the fields, care for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized, WOMEN of ACTION™ Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, Africa, African girls, Ann Cotton, Ann Lesley Cotton, Ann Lesley Cotton - WOMAN of ACTION™, doctorate, Dr Kate Pretty, education, female educators, gender, Ghana, girls’ education, honorary doctorate, KENYA, OBE, philanthropists, philanthropy, Principal of Homerton College, secondary education, Tanzania, universal education, University of Cambridge, woman, Woman of Action, woman taking action, women in leadership, women leaders, women., Zambia, Zimbabwe

Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, the girls are OFF!

March 5, 2013 by Team Celebration

They are climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro for many reasons - to get to the top, to realize their own dreams - but, most of all, to show the world: What Women can Achieve. That is why they believe that education is so important for girls everywhere. Setting off for Kili...the 10-woman team and WFP staff members. Copyright: WFP/Fizza Moloo DAR ES SALAAM -- For the 10 women – seven Nepalis and three Africans – gathered at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro on the last day of February, it was no small … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AFRICA, FEATURED, WOMEN GENDER EQUITY ISSUES, YOUTH of ACTION™ Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, African girls, African women, Africa’s highest mountain, Dar es Salaam, Death Race 3, girls taking action, Hlubi Mboya, International Women's Day, March 8, Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro, Nepali Women, South African actress, South African soap Isidingo, Take Action, the girls are OFF!, WFP, WFP/Fizza Moloo, woman, women taking action, women., WORLD HUNGER, youth of action

Ethiopian Girls celebrate a Safer Transition to Adulthood

January 23, 2013 by Team Celebration

Ethiopia's work with adolescent girls has garnered first prize in a Fund-wide contest to identify good practices related to adolescents and youth. Criteria included relevance (to UNFPA's strategic plan), innovation (in its approaches), impact (as demonstrated by positive and tangible results) and replicability (whether it can be effectively scaled up). The following feature story, and related box, explain how this model project amply fulfills those criteria. BAHIR DAR, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AFRICA, Contributors, WOMEN GENDER EQUITY ISSUES, YOUTH of ACTION™ Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa Youth and Sports Bureau, African girls, Award-Winning Programme, Berhane Hewan, Biruh Tesfa, celebrate a Safer Transition to Adulthood, Ethiopian Girls, forced sex, girls, HIV awareness, in Amharic, including HIV, life skills, Light for Eve, premature pregnancy, promotes functional literacy, reproductive health education, Safer Transition to Adulthood, sexually transmitted infection, Sports Bureau, Strategic Plan, Take Action, teen-aged girls, The Amhara Region in Ethiopia, UN, UNFPA, West Gojjam Zone, women taking action, women., youth of action

South Sudan: Girls’ Ration Increases School Attendance/Eastern Equatoria

October 13, 2012 by Team Celebration

School officials in South Sudan say a monthly take-home food ration from the World Food Programme (WFP) has helped to reduce the number of female students dropping out of school. TORIT – Education will be critical as the world’s newest country builds its future, and South Sudan’s girls are getting a better chance at an education thanks to WFP. WFP supports girls through what is known as the “Girls’ Incentive,” which is designed to encourage girls’ enrolment in school and keep them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AFRICA, Contributors Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, Africa, African girls, children, education, girl child, girls, Girls' Ration, global education, hunger, Redeemed Generation Academy, South Sudan, South Sudan: WFP Girls' Ration, students, UN, WFP

Thandiwe Chama – YOUTH of ACTION™

October 2, 2012 by Team Celebration

A Celebration of Women™ is elated to Celebrate the Life of this one girl who changed the world. YOUTH of ACTION™ Thandiwe Chama A 16-year-old Zambian girl, Thandiwe Chama of Lusaka’s Chawama township has scooped the 2007 International Children’s Peace Prize beating 28 other nominees from across the world. The prestigious prize was presented to Thandiwe in The Hague on Sunday by Nobel Peace Laureate, Betty Williams and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: WOMEN of ACTION™, YOUTH of ACTION™ Tagged With: Africa, African girls, African women, girls taking action, Lusaka’s Chawama, Take Action, Thandiwe Chama, Thandiwe Chama - YOUTH of ACTION™, youth, youth of action, Zambia, Zambian girl, “the Nkosi”

Phionah Musumba – WOMAN of ACTION™

PTSD, The plight of FGM in The Gambia, Africa

UNICEF and MONUSCO Taking Action against Rape in the Congo!

Ann Lesley Cotton – WOMAN of ACTION™

South Sudan: Girls’ Ration Increases School Attendance/Eastern Equatoria

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