Women for Women International

Women for Women International is an amazing organization. WFWI is an international non profit organzation that works with women survivors of war. Based in Washington, D.C and London, WFWI works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan.

Check out my article Women for Women International: A Guiding light for Women Survivors in The AFRican Magazine to find out more about WFWI.

Working on this piece I learned that WFWI partners with a number of international organizations to further its mission of aiding women in conflict and post conflict communities and countries.

Doctors without Borders/Medicins Sans Frontieres an independent international medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries and Heifer International an international sustainable development organization whose mission is to end world hunger by donating a wide variety of animals (and trees) to families around the world to improve their standard of living, are two of the many organizations that partner with WFWI.

In researching WFWI I also learned about UNIFEM (United Nation's Development Fund for Women) portal on women, peace and security called WomenWarPeace.org. On its Welcome page, WomenWarPeace.org states that its intention is to address the lack of consolidated data on the impact of armed conflict on women and girls as noted by Security Council resolution 1325 (2000). The portal is meant to serve as a centralized hub of information from a wide variety of sources, with links to reports and data from the UN system to information and analysis from experts, academics, NGOs and media sources.