Women of the World

As democracies emerge, and nations are built and rebuilt, there are many ways to reach out to the women of the world: Send food. Provide medical supplies. Support health care initiatives. Implement micro-lending programs.

And for countries like Afghanistan, and others, to actually be rebuilt and have a strong society, you must include women in the rebuilding.

Women of the World, Inc., (WOW) is dedicated specifically to providing women with the knowledge and skills necessary to build a civil society by participating in the democratic process.

By working to empower women to leadership in existing and emerging democracies throughout the world, WOW is actually helping to solve some of the largest problems in our world, including poverty and malnutrition.

According to an international 1998 UNICEF study, “At its most basic level, malnutrition is a consequence of disease and inadequate dietary intake, which usually occur in a debilitating and often lethal combination. But many more elements – social, political, economic, cultural – are involved beyond the physiological.

“Discrimination and violence against women are major causes of malnutrition.

“Women are the principal providers of nourishment during the most crucial periods of children’s development, but the caring practices vital to children’s nutritional well-being invariably suffer when the division of labour and resources in families and communities favours men, and when women and girls face discrimination in education and employment.”

WOW is exclusively an educational and training organization. WOW works with organizations serving target countries to identify and train grass roots, family, and village women who, as their survival and self-sufficiency needs are met by direct service organizations, contemplate policy level leadership in their communities.

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