Website Review: Womenforwomen.org

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Why this story is important: I feel this story is important because it makes people more aware of the issues happening in other countries. I also think it helps to tell the stories of the victims, such as, the women being raped in the Congo. I feel the story gives the Web site more attention so that people can help the women to have a better life.

What I did to get this story: I searched the Web site by reading about the women survivors, watching videos and reading about the history of some of the countries being helped to gain an understanding about what the organization does to help war survivors.

Online links to the information used in this story: http://womenforwomen.org

Currently in the Democratic Republic of Congo, women are facing an Epidemic of Rape, which is worse than anywhere else in the world. Women of all ages are being tied up and brutally raped and having to witness family members being killed for reasons such as, not wanting to watch their wife or sister being raped by Hutu soldiers. Women are also facing murder, torture and mutilations, forced migration and starvation.

To help rebuild the lives of war survivors, Women for Women International, a nonprofit organization, works with women in a one-year program. Their goal is to help women in war torn nations become active citizens and no longer victims. They want women to become independent by learning to earn a living, which they feel is how one plays an active family, community and country role.

Women for Women International has served over 15,000 women, one of whom feels, “This program has dared me to hope of having a house, of living in peace, of reclaiming my dynamism, my dignity….I would like to be someone of value again,” Honorata said.

Women for Women International also helps victims in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Columbia, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan.

Online donations can be made at anytime or you can sponsor a women for $27 a month to provide the women with important rights awareness training, health and literacy training, job skills training, money for food, clothes and schooling and a support system.

The Women for Women International website also provides videos and survivor stories of women, such as Honorata, in the Congo to learn more about how women are being treated and how they are overcoming the past. They also provide in-depth reports of how they are helping to rebuild, unite and restore hope for those around the world. Breaking news is located on the home page to keep people updated on worldly issues.

The website is very informative about the suffering, as well as, rebuilding that is taking place in war torn countries. It offers the history of the countries and what led them to their current societies. More importantly, it offers help for the victims and shows people how to change the world for the better.

An important day to celebrate is International Women’s Day on March 8, and Women for Women International wants everyone to remember women who have suffered in the past and present, and to help those escape future torture.

For more information or to make a donation, visit their website at

http://womenforwomen.org/.