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

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

I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?

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.

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.