‘It’s very refreshing to join an IWD day event about sharing learning, and the work throughout the year (and years), and how we can work together across borders in ways that have actually been impactful. Thank you for sharing!’
IWD 2024 Participant
We celebrated International Women’s Day this year by hearing from three African women. We invited Dr Stella Nyanzi, Dr Atuki Turner and Godess Bvukutwa to share about their work as grassroots women leaders of civil society organisations and movements working to tackle gendered injustice. The session quickly became about the power of storytelling, the power of poetry as resistance, and the role that narratives play in shaping our lived experiences.
We are grateful to all three expert panelists for their generous contributions, to SWIDN trustee Janet Whitelaw-Jones for hosting the session, and to our participants who attended.
Since SWIDN were first established around a Westcountry kitchen table in 2005, we have known that there are hundreds of organisations working across the UK’s South West to tackle poverty and inequality in countries around the world. Over the years, we have worked to engage many of these organisations as members, to better support their…
SWIDN’s Pilot Mentorship Scheme: Supporting International Development Professionals
25 September 2024
Between January and June 2024, SWIDN embarked on an exciting journey with our Pilot Mentorship Scheme. Designed to foster collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and professional growth, this initiative paired 22 mentors with 22 mentees, creating a vibrant community of international development professionals eager to learn and grow together. With wonderful input from Shaenna Loughnane – CEO at…
Career Journeys Blog Series #2 – Marlene Kawira
14 August 2024
We hope you enjoy this blog full of wisdom and career insights from Marlene Kawira Kinyua- Creative Humanitarian, Founder of Hello MEARL and Afrikala Art, Content creator with Lead Like a Feminist and much more! Thank you for sharing your story with SWIDN for the second in our blog series on Career Journeys….. What first…
