Empowering Girls & Ending FGM: The Hawa Trust Story When young girls are told their lives are defined by harmful traditions — that their bodies, futures and voices don’t matter — change becomes urgent. That’s why the Hawa Trust Foundation exists: to empower, to educate and to end practices like female genital mutilation (FGM) and…
Hawa Trust join Africa and Sierra Leone to commemorate African Child Day Hawa Trust Foundation dated June 16th 2021 join Africa and Sierra Leone in particular to commemorate the Day of African Child (DAC) with theme:* “30 years after the adoption of charter: Accelerate implementation of AGENDA 2040 for Africa fit for children” Referencing the…
Youth participation the ground for better decision making This event is organised by one of our staff, Yayah Janneh and will be taking place on zoom. Yayah Janneh is the Sierra Leonean representative at the global assembly of men against FGM and the leading youth activist in Sierra Leone. He’s worked with the ministry of…
International Women’s Day 2021 by Global Institute for Women’s Leadership It’s been said that we’re at a coronavirus crossroads: depending on the path we take next as we recover from the pandemic, progress on gender equality could stall or even be reversed. We know that the economic impacts of the crisis have fallen hardest on…