Alliance for African Women Initiative

...empower to be prime movers

Our vision and mission

Our vision is a world where all women and children are safe from harm in the societies where they live.

Our mission is to create environments that enable fair development for vulnerable people in rural and urban settings, particularly women and children.

Our projects

AFAWI has undertaken many development projects over the years, centred around youth and women’s empowerment as well as community and human resource development. Among the projects we’ve run are a malaria control project and a programme aimed at curbing the discrimination and stigmatization of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).

What we do

We believe that everyone can choose: either be part of the problem or part of the solution. This is why we work together with other organisations to champion education for all, women’s and youth empowerment and development, HIV/AIDS and sexual reproductive health, community and rural development and human rights.

Volunteers needed

We’re always looking for volunteers to work with us in Ghana. As a volunteer for AFAWI, you’ll support development of the most vulnerable people in society. If you’re looking for a life changing experience, for you and those that you help, find out more.

African Regional Conference on Women Access to Trade and Finance

To achieve the goals of poverty reduction and sustainable growth in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, empowering women is essential.

The reality.... Women are a priceless economic force, yet the employment practices are deficient regarding right working conditions appropriate to their situation. According to UNIFEM eight out of ten women workers are considered to be in vulnerable employment in SSA, which represents a sad reality on their livelihoods with little emancipation.

A positive step to address the problems...

The next initiative of AFAWI is to organise a forum for the stakeholders to exchange issues related to women in the SSA and trade development; and a regional conference is planned to be held in the first quarter of 2013 in Accra, Ghana. Never before in Ghana has there been a conference that has approached this subject; and it would be the first step to formalise a result-oriented forum that
hopefully would not be the last.

Our goal is to identify innovative...

Please donate to the Livelihood Project fund!

We need your support to run our microfinance project, providing affordable loans and business skills training to poor women and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).

The project encourages the economic participation of women, promotes gender equality and improves the economic welfare of people that don't ordinarily have access to financial services. You can read more about the project here.

If you'd like to help us reach our target of $12,000, please let us know and send your donation...

The Kids' Fund

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This project has been conceptualised by Charlie Young and Laurie Oscar Wynne, two British volunteers working with Alliance for African Women Initiative (AFAWI).

After observing local school aged children playing every day outside the office, questions were raised about universal access to education in Ghana. Access to education for poor families in Ghana is a prevalent problem despite free primary and junior education policy. This is due to the hidden costs involved with sending a child to...

Human rights of women

Domestic violence and marital rape affect women worldwide. However, these issues continue to remain almost invisible in Ghana’s society and culture. The subject is considered too taboo so is not discussed openly. Few organizations have published research on the subject and the media doesn’t report the daily occurrences of gender based violence.

We are currently carrying out a study looking at the issues of domestic violence and marital rape among women working in markets in the...

HIV/AIDS and reproductive health

HIV/AIDS: prevention, promoting behavior change, treatment, support and mitigating the societal impacts.
While AFAWI Ghana has been working to secure women's empowerment, we have paid particular attention to the HIV/AIDS pandemic which has taken hold of Africa in recent years. No other disease has so dramatically highlighted the current disparities in economic benefits and opportunities faced by African people.

AFAWI Ghana has joined forces with other organisations to help fight the...

Alliance for African Women Initiative

Our vision and mission

Our projects

What we do

Volunteers needed

African Regional Conference on Women Access to Trade and Finance

Please donate to the Livelihood Project fund!

The Kids' Fund

Human rights of women

HIV/AIDS and reproductive health

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Volunteers

Danielle Vassell - 04/28/12

Mary McGovern - 10/16/11

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