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AWM Honorees on ‘The Spotlight’- Reinette van der Merwe

In line with the Amazons Watch (AW) Magazine 2020 vision of showcasing diverse perspectives, insights, strategies & case studies that will challenge women at all levels across emerging economies, to tread uncharted waters and scale new heights, we are excited to bring you our brand new segment- ‘The Spotlight’. The Spotlight was designed to follow and track the activities of the Magazine’s/CELD’s Honorees and GWL Hall of Fame Inductees to showcase and spotlight their new achievements and heights attained. The aim is to inspire more women as change leaders as well as congratulate these amazing women for their continuous and undying contributions to society. On this first episode, Reinette van der Merwe, aka ‘The Only Woman in the Boardroom’ is on ‘The Spotlight’. Let’s take you through the journey of what Reinette has been up to. Reinette van der Merwe received CELD’s Global Inspirational Leadership Award and was also inducted…

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Middle East

Saudi Arabia to Launch First Women’s Football League

Saudi Arabia is set to launch a female football league, two years after women were first allowed into stadiums in the Gulf kingdom. The league will play its matches in the capital, Riyadh, and two other cities. The creation of the league is the latest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s reforms in Saudi Arabia, which has long been seen as one of the world’s strictest societies. Campaigners say much more remains to be done for women’s rights. Officials say the aim of the latest move is to boost female participation in sport. “The launch of the [league] bolsters women’s participation in sports at the community level and will generate increased recognition for women’s sports achievements,” the government-run Saudi Sports for All Federation said. Saudi women were first allowed into a football stadium in January 2018 – the same year that the Gulf kingdom ended a decades-long ban on female…

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International News

Betsy Devos Speaks On Need to Bring More Education Opportunities to America’s Children

“I want to tell everyone today you are either for children or against children when it comes to educational freedom and choice in education.” So said Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, who spoke Thursday with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at the Conservative Political Action Conference about the need to bring more education opportunities to America’s children. Conway said support for school choice is broad among the general public, yet a deep partisan divide exists on the issue, as the Trump administration has found. “There is no ‘but,’ there is no excuse, there is no talk of ‘But the teacher unions …,’” she told the CPAC crowd. “You are either helping these brown and black and rural children get more opportunities, or you’re not.” Choice in public education often is blocked by liberals at the state level who protect unions whose members work for badly run public schools, Conway…

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Africa News

KENYA: Azuri Technologies Encourages Rural Women to Use Solar Energy

Solar home systems provider Azuri Technologies has recently launched the “Brighter Lives” project in Nairobi, Kenya. The initiative aims to encourage rural women to turn to solar energy. It will also provide training and employment for 250 of them. In Kenya, training in the use of solar energy will soon be provided to rural women. This will be thanks to the “Brighter Lives” project which has been initiated in early February 2020 by the CEO of Azuri Technologies Simon Bransfield-Garth. It was during the first Women in Solar meeting held at the British Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. The solar home systems supplier Azuri Technologies, offers these women a “comprehensive” training programme at its regional training centres in Kenya. Among other things, they will be trained in finding new livelihoods and adapting technologies to their needs. The women will also be trained in the initial installation of solar-powered equipment, as well…

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Impact Inspire

Ensuring Pastoralist Survival in Chad

“We are connected to nature, we find our resources in nature, we protect it; nature is completely intertwined with our culture and way of life.” Those were the wise words of a West African woman environmentalist who is fighting for the survival of her people in a little place in Chad. Born in Chad in 1984, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim spent her formative years between N’Djamena the capital city of Chad where she studied, and her holidays with her community, the indigenous Mbororo people, who are traditionally nomadic farmers. During her undergraduate days Ibrahim was discriminated against as an indigenous woman, she was also aware of the ways in which her Mbororo counterparts were excluded from the educational opportunities she received. Having borne the pain of discrimination, she founded the Association of Indigenous Peul Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT) in 1999, to help promote the rights of girls and women…

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