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WEA Advocacy Training: Building Bridges for Dialogue and Collaboration
This November 4th – 6th, WEA hosted our first Advocacy Training, in partnership with Indigenous Environmental Network. We’re proud to share that the Training was a success. Our Training took place at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, CA, which is located on Ohlone territory. Muwekma Ohlone elder Ann Marie Sayers opened the Training on…
Making Ripples: Zero to 2800 in Four Months
Exciting news rippling out from East Africa! It has been four months since the Global Women’s Water Initiative completed Phase One of our third African Women and Water Training Program in Kampala, Uganda (Read more about the Phase 1). Fifty two women from East Africa and the United States came to Kampala to attend…
Give a Sh*t
If you didn’t know, Nov 19 was World Toilet Day. Why, you ask, would we dedicate a day recognized around the world – to a toilet? Because one out of three people on the planet do not have access to one. The lack of safe disposal and treatment of human waste is one of the…
Matilda is why WEA believes…
Three years ago Matilda Nabukonde had never picked up a shovel. Today, she can build rainwater harvesting systems (RWH), biosand water filters (BSF) and ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrines. She offers hygiene education workshops to hundreds of people in remote rural areas in Uganda and slums of Kampala. A grandmother and caretaker, Matilda is a…
Live from the 3rd Phase of the Women, Food Security and Climate Change Training
The following is a report from India Program Director, Rucha Chitnis, who is in Uttar Pradesh, India for the final phase of the India Women, Food Security and Climate Change Training. Climate change and food security continue to emerge as key global issues. In particular, they pose as persistent and disproportionate challenges for women. This…
November 4: Steadying the Seasons
Women’s Earth Alliance is preparing to host our first Advocacy Training, November 4th – 6th, 2011, here at the David Brower Center in Berkeley. With guidance from our Steering Committee and organizational partner, Indigenous Environmental Network, we’re convening 75 advocates and activists for three days of dialogue, learning and collaborative action towards environmental justice for…
WEA at Bioneers: Leadership at the Nexus
Last week, the WEA Team was thrilled to co-facilitate the 2011 Bioneers Post-Conference Intensive, Leadership at the Nexus: When Women Thrive, Communities Thrive. Along with Nina Simons, Co-Founder and CEO of Bioneers, WEA’s Directors and a dynamic group of multi-generational women leaders participated in a daylong session of personal vision cultivation, collective learning, and collaboration.…
The Weight of Water
“I came into this world carrying water on my head, and I refuse to leave this world still carrying it.” —Mildred Mkandla from an interview with WEA Research Fellow, Beth Robertson, during the 2011 GWWI Women and Water Training in Uganda. Mildred Mkandla, known as “Mama Maji” (Mama Water in Swahili) is the “MacGyver” of…
When women thrive, communities thrive: Join us at the 2011 Bioneers Conference for a day-long workshop on Leadership!
We are delighted to announce that the WEA Team, as part of the 2011 Bioneers Conference‘s Cultivating Women’s Leadership program, will be leading a special one-day intensive workshop, “Leadership at the Nexus: When Women Thrive, Communities Thrive.” On Monday, October 17th, WEA Directors Amira Diamond, Caitlin Sislin, Gemma Bulos, Maame Yelbert-Obeng, Melinda Kramer, and Rucha…
When I grow up, I want to be an engineer!
Photos and Text by Beth Robertson (Research Fellow) At Katuuso Primary School in Uganda—the site where the 2011 GWWI East Africa Grassroots Training built and handed over two water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) technologies—the students, especially the girls, were shocked to see women constructing rainwater harvesting (RWH) tanks and ventilated improved pits (VIP) latrines…