From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.

I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.

Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.

Believe in your passions and act on them.

When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.