• FGM

As we approach the final phase of the Target Project Health, the Target Team has been reviewing our education and awareness efforts over the previous three years. We are proud to say that FAWCO women have engaged and become increasingly fluent in the language of female genital mutilation (FGM) during this period. When we started, many of us felt trepidation...

by Amanda Drollinger, AWC Central Scotland

I had the privilege of attending COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021. It was an amazing opportunity to hear directly from environmental action groups, environmental innovators, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, national and international organizations, nations and world leaders. They shared their plans, strategies and trajectories for navigating the climate crises and climate...

by Anne van Oorschot, AWC The Hague

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by Karen Castellon, AWC Berlin

Ascend Athletics is a global not-for-profit organization working in Afghanistan to empower young women through mountaineering-based leadership training. Recipients of a 2021 FAWCO Foundation Development Grant to create health materials for their target population of young women and their families, Ascend pivoted in August 2021 to assist its participants and their families in fleeing...

• cancer

 by Christine Riney, AWC Hamburg, AWC London & FAWCO Health Co-Chair

The thought, the very idea, that we could have a future without the staggering number of deaths from cancer (in 2020 approx. 10,000,000) seems impossible – but is it? We live in a time of amazing advancements in the care of cancer patients and more importantly, in the...

by Carol-Lyn McKelvey, FAUSA & AIWC Cologne

Typically, the Education Team focuses its energies on shining a spotlight on efforts, concerns and victories in underserved communities outside of the United States. However, with so much attention recently on the Black Lives Matter movement, the confusion over critical race theory, the disenfranchisement of Black voters through redistricting and restrictive voting practices...