{"id":36119,"date":"2025-03-07T14:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/?p=36119"},"modified":"2025-03-07T15:48:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:48:36","slug":"international-womens-day-webinar-2025-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/international-womens-day-webinar-2025-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch up on Self Help Africa’s International Women’s Day Webinar 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four young African women entrepreneurs and campaigners shared their inspiring stories of innovation and activism, as Self Help Africa hosted its fifth annual webinar to mark International Women\u2019s Day, this week. This year’s United Nations International Women’s Day Theme is: For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment<\/a>.<\/p>

On Thursday, March 6th, around 200 people from over 18 countries \u2013 from Botswana to Burkina Faso, South Africa to Senegal \u2013 attended the online event, and heard the accounts and testimonies of Cork-based Somalian student activist Sumaya Mohammad, Moroccan agri-environmentalist Wissal Ben Moussa, Nigerian new media innovator Nina Mbah, and Ethiopian gender advisor Sara Demissew.<\/p>