“Even though many daughters have legal ownership of their family-run business, meaning they have inherited the firm’s shares and voting rights, along with a first-class formal education, many of them […]
SheLeadsIT with CGI Disaster Action Network
SheLeadsIT Caribbean Girls Hack, represented by Nicole Pitter Patterson (WEI Trade) participated as a panelist at the CGI Action Network on Post-Disaster Recovery held June 3-4 in St. Thomas, U.S Virgin […]
Caribbean Girls Hack Empowering Girls in ICT
SheLeadsIT, led by Nicole Pitter Patterson (WEI Trade) and Bridget Lewis, a member of the WEI network executed Caribbean Girls Hack 2019 Hackathon, an innovative initiative to bridge the digital […]
WEI Champion Spotlight: WEI Board Member – William Reese
“The Women’s Economic Imperative is a 21st century granddaughter of those early Women in Development programs…. you can’t talk about helping poor people if you don’t help them earn more …, […]
WEI Champion Spotlight: Ashaba Faridah
How did you get introduced to the idea of becoming a pilot? Before I pursued a diploma in flight operations and management, I didn’t even know we had pilot […]
Rencontre avec Moise Ntigirinzigo, fondateur de l’ONG IPSDI au Burundi
Au Burundi, l’un des pays les plus pauvres du monde où très peu de filles ont accès à l’enseignement secondaire et où l’insécurité alimentaire reste une menace pour les populations locales, […]
Youth Impact: Unleashing the Power of Youth to Deliver on Global Goals
On October 11th, 2018, Ali Matalon and I attended a conference at Georgetown University, hosted by the International Youth Foundation and Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact. The conference […]
What can be done to economically empower women in Africa?
NOTE: This article was originally published on the World Economic Forum. Women have long suffered stigmatization and marginalization globally. The number of women who still face challenges in reaching their […]