November 3, 2009
Top Photo (left to right): JLC governance committee members and staff Mafalda Trabuco, Kavita Ramdya, Aurelie Nordlinger, Celia C., Brita Schmidt
Bottom Photo (left to right): JLC governance committee members Julie Grossman, Celia C., Kavita Ramdya, Mafalda Trabuco
On 3 November 2009, the Women for Women International London Junior Leadership Circle hosted PLAY: a Festival of Fun with Paradise Row & Prakke Contemporary in Mayfair. PLAY is a pop-up art show which examines the notion of “play” and features the works of well-known contemporary artistis including the Chapman Brothers, Sol LEwitt and Carsten Holler. By the end of the evening, the Women for Women International London JLC hit and surpassed its 2009 fundraising target, raising £3,380 to support women survivors of war.
Thanks to Paradise Row & Prakke Contemporary for sponsoring the event, the staff at WfWI for their hard work and administrative support and the following JLC members for organising the event: Julie Grossman, Mafalda Trabuco, and Phan Tu.
For more information about this event, please contact Philippa at PSellers@womenforwomen.org.
November 1, 2009
The most recent “Economist” magazine has an interesting article about a treaty recently signed to assist Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), many of whom are women living in Africa (eg. Congo, Somalia, Uganda and Kenya).
http://www.economist.com/world/middleeast-africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14770151
October 20, 2009
Visit Facebook to join the WfWI London JLC group by searching…
Women for Women International – Junior Leadership Circle
October 17, 2009
Check on CNN’s coverage of rape victims in the Congo at
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/16/amanpour.congo.rape.documentary/index.html
Story Highlights
- Human Rights Watch: 200,000 women, girls raped in Eastern Congo since 1998
- Condition of women more dire as the army fights armed groups in the country
- More than 5 million die in Congo from disease, hunger resulting from fighting
- Congo has taken some measures to try to curb the sexual violence
October 16, 2009
Linda Melvern’s talk to the London JLC was a timely one; unfortunately, fifteen years after the civil war, Rwandans are still suffering from acts of genocide. The NY Times reported that dozens of Rwandan women were raped in April ‘09 by former Congolese Tutsi rebels.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/world/africa/16briefs-congokillings.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y
October 14, 2009
Check out Zainab Salbi’s blog posting about Iraqui women on “The Huffington Post” at…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zainab-salbi/where-are-iraqi-women-tod_b_293498.html
October 13, 2009
Women for Women International was recently featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Within 24 hours, the organisation received 5,062 sponsorships and $33K+ in online donations – and the numbers keep growing. To provide some context:
- On average, we received 17 new sponsorships/day in September
- On average, we received 476 new sponsorships/month this year
- We currently have 27,346 active sponsorships – this is nearly 20% growth
Other indicators of success:
- Women for Women International was the #1 search term on Google the day the show aired
- We received 27 emails yesterday from grassroots supporters interested in hosting events or starting their own Run for Congo – we normally receive 3-4/day
- 86% of the visitors to our website yesterday were new – as of 7:30 pm that night, we had 17,000 visitors, up from 1,400 on a typical day
