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U.S. withdraws from Paris Accord, and the impact on women
Yesterday, U.S. government officials announced their decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, an agreement endorsed by almost all countries in the world. This agreement expresses a unified commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing climate change. A key question we are asking at WEA: What will this mean for women? It’s no…
WEA and WISE’s Clean Cookstoves Training gets national coverage in Nigeria!
This past April, WEA and WISE (Women’s Initiative for Sustainable Environment) kicked off a series of two training intensives as part of our joint WISE Women’s Clean Cookstoves Training in Kaduna, Nigeria. These trainings aimed not only to provide women in Nigeria with access to life-saving clean cookstoves, but also to equip them with the…
The Original Loom this Mother’s Day
Each Mother’s Day, we lift up and celebrate the work of mothers and community caregivers around the world. It is no easy task to nurture children, birth movements, or protect our shared future on Earth. We know that you share our vision that through women’s leadership we can create a future of balance, health, and…
Ripples from West Africa, a partner update from Ghana
In 2010, Monica Ayomah was one of the eight local women trainers in the West African Women and Water Trainings in Ghana. We were thrilled to hear from Monica this month and learn how her leadership has unfolded over the years. Today she is a WASH trainer in Ghana, touching the lives of countless more women and spreading critical water and sanitation…
WEA’s Seeds of Resilience Project kicks off Storytelling Initiative
In March, WEA Project Partner Vanastree held their first photography training session, kicking off a storytelling initiative within our joint Seeds of Resilience Project. This unique storytelling initiative supports the project’s ongoing efforts to ensure seed and food sovereignty and the transfer of traditional knowledge in Karnataka State, India. In storytelling workshops, participants are gaining skills in multimedia and…
Empower Women and Save the Planet
At the core of WEA’s work is our conviction that to truly and holistically address the issues women face and the issues our environment faces, we must work from an intersectional foundation. This is why we develop trainings for women in environmentally threatened regions around the world to regenerate water, food, and clean energy for their…
WISE Women’s Clean Cookstove Training Retreat Gaining National Attention
The WISE Women’s Clean Cookstove Project, partnership between WEA and Women’s Initiative for Sustainable Environment (WISE) in Kaduna, Nigeria, just completed its first of two week-long training retreats and The Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves featured the project its newsletter this month! This [training] will help empower fellow women leaders in their communities, and break the structural…
An innovative partnership for peace, justice and environmental healing
Have you heard about The Ripple Academy? For the last 6 months, WEA and United Religions Initiative have worked together to develop a framework and launch this innovative new partnership, and we couldn’t be more excited to be working together to support more women around the world than ever before! This holistic training program merges the very best of…
63 million people in rural India are living without access to clean water.
Here, the day after World Water Day, comes a report on the state of world’s water from Water Aid. In its’ summary of the report, The Hindustan Times underlines how the water strain in India is especially damaging to country’s rural communities. This report is a reminder that water conservation efforts and the efforts of those working…
WEA Celebrates World Water Day with Together for H2OPE!
Happy World Water Day! Today, we celebrate all the amazing work grassroots change-makers around the world are bringing forth to ensure more women, more children, more families and more communities have access to clean water and healthy water systems. We couldn’t think of a better way of doing this than by uplifting the incredible efforts of the Together for…