by Brussels Communications | May 28, 2021 | Brussels, Female Empowerment
I am Habiba Saidi Mtamba, a DSW Youth Advocate from southern Tanzania. Today, on World Menstrual Hygiene Day, I want to share my experience of some of the challenges that I faced and that other girls in Tanzania face during their menstrual cycle. Today, there are...
by Leigh-Ann McSweeney | May 27, 2021 | Female Empowerment, Youth Empowerment
Although it directly affects half of the world’s population, people often don’t talk about menstruation. This is especially a problem for young people. In Tanzania and Ethiopia, every fourth young woman does not know what menstruation is. So it is a big...
by Brussels Communications | May 19, 2021 | Brussels, Female Empowerment, Global Health
This HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, we join the call for women to be at the center of the HIV response, with the space and resources to demand and lead their own solutions. Despite significant leaps forward in HIV prevention and treatment programmes in recent years,...
by Philomena Marijani | Apr 13, 2021 | Advance, Empower, Female Empowerment
Historically international women’s day begun nearly a century ago. It grew from a labor movement, when women demanded fair and equal wage. In 1975, UN formally started to celebrate international women’s day. On the 5th March 2021, DSW Tanzania celebrated International...
by Brussels Communications | Mar 26, 2021 | Brussels, Female Empowerment, Global Health, Youth Empowerment
At the beginning of 2020, the European Parliament started to work on a report on the new EU’s strategy with Africa, in what was supposed to be a crucial year for the partnership between the two continents. Even though the EU-Africa summit, originally planned in...
by Brussels Communications | Mar 8, 2021 | Brussels, Female Empowerment
The 8th of March is a day that is marked every year across the world with celebrations of women’s achievements in different fields, from science to the creative arts, sports to business. The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is women in leadership....
