Women for Women International

WHAT?

• Women for Women International helps women that have been affected by conflict or live in post-conflict environments to transform their lives with peace. The organization offers a one-year program to help women get back into their communities as active citizens. The program offers essential needs to the women, education about their rights, leadership, vocational and technical skills and finally a job so that they can get back into their communities financially stable.

HISTORY

• Zainab Salbi is the founder and CEO for Women for Women International. Salbi grew up living in the war torn country of Iraq in the shadows of Saddam Hussein. She wrote a memoir called Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam. She ended up escaping Iraq and begun to help other women who were living in war torn countries just like she had. She says, "Women who survive war are strong, resilient and courageous – they just need some support dealing with the aftermath of conflict."


• W.W.I. was founded in 1993


• 93,000 and counting women survivors of the war are now active in their communities

If you would like more information about Zainab Salbi and some of her more recent work, you can check out this web page http://www.womenforwomen.org/about-women-for-women/zainab-salbi.php.

The People

• Zainab Salbi is the founder and CEO of W.W.I.


• Queen Rania Al-Abdullah (who is the Queen of the Royal Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan) is the Global Ambassador


• There are 17 members of the Board of Directors


• There are 8 members on the Global Management Team


• There are 4 members on the International Council of Advisors


• There are 13 members on the Business Advisory Council


• There are 9 members on the Communications Advisory Council


• There are 8 women who are country directors for each country W.W.I. serves.


• Anyone can sponsor a woman in any of the countries W.W.I. serves and by sponsoring you send money to help better a woman's life and become pen pals with them.


• W.W.I. serves women in the following countries: Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan.
  

If you would like to read up on some of the field notes from women who've been helping women in war torn countries check out this blog http://wfwnotesfromthefield.wordpress.com/.

You make this possible! W.W.I. is run by sponsorships and donations. You can sponsor a woman and change a life. Check out this web page https://mywomenforwomen.org/donation/sponsor-a-woman.php?wfw=webgenSP.

W.W.I. wants to change women's war torn lives for the better. Salbi believes that stronger women build stronger nations. They've helped so many people so far, 93,000 and counting. They hope to have that number continue to grow. They want to keep raising awareness through the media about Women for Women International and all it has to offer women. Here is a youtube video that tells all about W.W.I. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwWy7OtaSM8&feature=PlayList&p=D4EB22741A0733C6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=54.

The photograph was taken from http://www.womenforwomen.org/. Zainab Salbi is the woman sitting in the center of the photograph.