• cervical cancer
• cancer

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

In November 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) brought about the first-ever global commitment to eliminate a cancer: cervical cancer. You can read the full details in this article. 

The thought that we can be free of cervical cancer in the foreseeable future is astounding. This gives me pause...

1. Female genital mutilation (FGM) involves the partial or total removal of external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
2. FGM is found on ALL continents except Antartica. The countries with the highest prevalence are Somalia, Guinea, Djibouti and Sierra Leone. 
3. The practice has no health benefits for girls and women.
4. FGM has numerous and...

The Education Team recommends the following:

World Literacy Day 2021 Book Discussion

Literacy

by Carol-Lyn McKelvey, FAUSA & AIWC Cologne

‟...there have been moments where we reached out to one another as a nation, channeling what unites us rather than what separates us.” p. 103

Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner’s What Unites Us is a beacon of hope in what has been a fairly bleak 2020. Originally published in 2017, the current edition has been...

solicited by Juliet Cutler, FAUSA

As a follow-up to the Education Team’s book discussion on Among the Maasai with author Juliet Cutler, Juliet has reached out to the Maasai Girls School to solicit thoughts from the girls on their lives in and out of school. We are honored to share these thoughts with you. If you are inspired by Mary’s story and...

Welcome to Tanzania, or rather, the United Republic of Tanzania (or Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania in Swahili.) 

The name ‟Tanzania” was created from the names of the two states that unified to create the country: Tanganyika and Zanzibar. The name ‟Tanganyika” comes from the Swahili words tanga (‟sail”) and nyika (‟uninhabited plain,” ‟wilderness”), creating the phrase ‟sail in the...