Alliance for African Women Initiative

...empower to be prime movers

Our vision and mission

Our vision is a world where all women and children are safe from harm in the societies where they live.

Our mission is to create environments that enable fair development for vulnerable people in rural and urban settings, particularly women and children.

Our projects

AFAWI has undertaken many development projects over the years, centred around youth and women’s empowerment as well as community and human resource development. Among the projects we’ve run are a malaria control project and a programme aimed at curbing the discrimination and stigmatization of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).

What we do

We believe that everyone can choose: either be part of the problem or part of the solution. This is why we work together with other organisations to champion education for all, women’s and youth empowerment and development, HIV/AIDS and sexual reproductive health, community and rural development and human rights.

Volunteers needed

We’re always looking for volunteers to work with us in Ghana. As a volunteer for AFAWI, you’ll support development of the most vulnerable people in society. If you’re looking for a life changing experience, for you and those that you help, find out more.

HIV/AIDS awareness campaign at Airtel Rising Stars tournament

Football stars are seen as role models by young people and sports is now regarded as a strong channel in bringing about change in societies around the world. So this August, AFAWI launched a campaign at a football tournament in order to reach young people and raise awareness about HIV/AIDS, in collaboration with UNAIDS.

UNAIDS has been promoting their work in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS through high-profile football tournaments since 2010 when they launched the World Cup Appeal at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa with the support of 28 World Cup team captains.

The appeal was designed to highlight the need to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and was supported by the UNAIDS ‘Give AIDS the Red Card’ campaign. The reach of this campaign has continued through AFAWI’s collaborations with UNAIDS and our partnership with the Pan-African football tournament, Airtel Rising Stars.

Airtel Rising Stars aims to identify and...

Volunteer opportunities in youth development

In 2008, we launched Teen Club, a program that aims to educating young people to empower them to make better choices in life and grow into responsible adults. After the success of Teen Club at Green Hill International School we are extending the program to include three more schools in the Ga East District in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

We need volunteers with a range of grassroot development skills to help manage the program, which will be running for the next two years, from 26...

African Regional Conference on Women Access to Trade and Finance

To achieve the goals of poverty reduction and sustainable growth in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, empowering women is essential.

The reality.... Women are a priceless economic force, yet the employment practices are deficient regarding right working conditions appropriate to their situation. According to UNIFEM eight out of ten women workers are considered to be in vulnerable employment in SSA, which represents a sad reality on their livelihoods with little emancipation.

A...

Healthy menstrual management opens doors for African girls

Funding provided by: CIDA-SIGEP

Some problems facing developing countries that can seem impossible to solve, may in fact have simple solutions that with the necessary funds, can be implemented effectively. AFAWI-Ghana ran a research project to investigate the issue of African girls missing out on their education due to poor menstrual practices. They found that girls’ lives and educational prospects can be drastically improved, simply by providing them with feminine products and...

Youth development: Teen Club

Educating young people empowers them to make better choices in life and grow into responsible adults.

AFAWI launched a Teen Club in January 2008 at Green Hill International School for students in Junior High School (grades 7 to 9). The Teen Club meet once a week to learn and discuss topics like current events, leadership, health and sexual maturation, characteristics of responsible adults, the media and culture.

Student executives, elected by members of the Club, plan activities for...

Alliance for African Women Initiative

Our vision and mission

Our projects

What we do

Volunteers needed

HIV/AIDS awareness campaign at Airtel Rising Stars tournament

Volunteer opportunities in youth development

African Regional Conference on Women Access to Trade and Finance

Healthy menstrual management opens doors for African girls

Youth development: Teen Club

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