Based on fieldwork in Uganda, our Starting with Women Approach provides a comprehensive toolkit designed to ensure women’s voices are heard. Newly updated! 24 tools.
New! Updates and Redesign of the Starting with Women Toolkit
By Kat Oak
Based on fieldwork in Uganda, our Starting with Women Approach provides a comprehensive toolkit designed to ensure women’s voices are heard. Newly updated! 24 tools.
I recently traveled to the highlands of Peru. Every woman I met there seemed to be doing something with wool: spinning it, or knitting or crocheting skirts, sweaters, and scarves. I was fascinated by the activity, as a sometimes knitter myself, but when I asked to take pictures of them they reacted with confusion at my interest. In their minds, they were not doing anything remarkable or picture worthy, just the daily work they needed to get done. I see this everywhere I go. Women are almost always working, even if I’m distracting them by gathering them for group discussions, […]