Rwanda - Girls: Fit for Leadership! Empowerment Strategies for “Young Future Leaders”

Model project Girls’ Parliament in Rwanda

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day 2004 and the 10-year commemoration of the genocide in Rwanda, Women without Borders invited the Rwandan Member of Parliament Connie Bwiza Sekamana ...

India - Connecting Women and Children for Hope

A Tsunami-Relief Project in Chennai / South India

It is hard to describe the scale of destruction or the loss of life which the never-before earthquake-triggered Tsunami tidal waves brought in their wake across several coastal districts of Tamil Nadu. ...

Iraq - Daily Life of Families in Iraq

Youth in the Midst of Horror and Hope

The Iraqi youth are a part of the most educated segment of the Arab world. During the course of the last two years they have been increasingly cut off from education. The unstable political ...

Afghanistan - Women´s Center in the Nimruz Province

This successful project is already been running for three years. At the request of the Afghan Ministry for Women, and after an assessment of the need and feasibility of the project, a women's shelter ...

Zanzibar - Island of Change

The new female face of Zanzibar

Africa is a continent of hope and has been a priority of the international community – even before the last G8 summit. Nevertheless, interest and support of this region is off to a late start. In ...

Afghanistan - Basketball for Girls in Kabul

Under the reign of the Taliban, girls were literally under “house arrest”. They have forgotten—or, worse, had never learnt—how to play sports or to move about. Girls have an enormous ...

Afghanistan - Empowerment of Afghan Women for Afghan Women

"Our Country My Role"

Afghan women need the competence and the 'know-how' to be able to take their future into their own hands and to take care of their own concerns. This project was the first initiative to support ...

Palestine - Emergency Medical Help in Birzeit

In cooperation with the Palestinian human rights and peace activist Sumaya Farhat-Naser, the Bruno Kreisky Forum and the Birzeit Women’s Charitable Society, Women Without Borders is supporting a ...

Local - International Girls Parliament

in Latin America and Europe

This unique project is funded by the European Commission, and carried out simultaneously in 8 different municipalities in six Latin American and two European countries in the framework of the ...

Rwanda: "Kicking for Reconciliation!"

A Women without Borders Football for Girls´Project in Kigali

Self-confidence, competence, trauma healing through sport In 1994 the conflict between the Tutsi minority and the Hutu majority in Rwanda started to escalate – the world’s largest genocide ...

Austria/Turkey/Cyprus: Young Women: Fit for Politics!

Political Empowerment Workshops for young women in Vienna, Istanbul and Nicosia.

Young Women: Fit for Politics! is a unique initiative, which puts interested and committed young women in a position to actively fight for a cause and make a contribution to society. It wants to broaden ...

India - Take your Future into your own Hands

A Tsunami Rehabilitation and Support Project for Women 40+

Women, who are for different reasons, being socially as well as economically marginalized. After the Tsunami the social structures in the villages have been destroyed. In the predominant ...

India - Women swimming into the Future!

A Women Empowerment Project in the South Indian Tsunami region.

This pilot program to give girls and women swimming lessons, in cooperation with the Sports Division of the Austrian Federal Chancellery, was a great success. From February 2nd to the 8th ...