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A few weeks ago, Girl Now Woman Later celebrated the 10th anniversary of International Day of the Girl. Here at GNWL, we believe that all girls should be provided with the resources to empower themselves. Particularly in Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in the world and where we mainly work, girls should be […]

Burkina Faso has a long-standing issue of violence towards women. A 2012 survey found that 12% of women had experienced lifetime physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence with 9% having experienced this in the last 12 months.[1]Yet tragically, these rates are on the rise. Violence against non-state armed groups, many with ties to extremist groups

As Girl Now Woman Later dedicates itself to improving girls’ education, we are so excited to celebrate International Girls in ICT Day! ICT, or Information and Communications Technology, is one of the most important sectors of innovation in the world. Still, it retains a concerning gender ratio. According to a 2021 global survey done by

On the fourth Thursday of April, we celebrated the International Day of the Girl, ICT. With our increasingly digital world, expertise in information and communication technologies has become imperative in the workplace. The UN estimates that there will be around two million job vacancies in the ICT sector over the next five years. However, although

The Ghanaian intellectual James Emman Aggrey was not mistaken when he said, in the early 1920s “To educate a man is to educate an individual. To educate a woman is to educate an entire nation.” Indeed, a girl is able to accomplish a lot if we stop and look beyond her gender. International Day of