Olive Uwamariya: Extending the reach
Olive Uwamariya is an empowered
woman of the feminist mold. She was amongst the first women to be trained under
the Rwanda Women Leadership Institute (RWLI) as a facilitator to empower women
leaders with relevant leadership skills. RWLI is a project of the Rwanda
Women’s Network in collaboration with the African Centers of Excellence
for Women’s Leadership (ACE).
Describing herself as an
unapologetic feminist, Uwamariya was recently featured in a talk show on Contact
FM, one of the popular radio stations in Rwanda, where she discussed feminism
and its positive place in society. Uwamariya embodies the RWLI aim to empower
and reach women and girls as widely as possible with leadership ideals,
especially through women like. She knowledgeably speaks out, as well as
describes how she amiably asserts her rights at home with her spouse and in the
society at large. While Rwanda has made some strides with gender friendly
policies, Uwamariya observes that there are those who would like to think that
“women have reached,” for instance, by being a majority at 64 percent in the
Rwandan parliament. She asserts that it is not true the women “have reached.”
There’s still some way to go.
Follow the discussion here:
Established in September 2012, the RWLI aims
to expand and improve delivery of new skills and tools for women’s effective
leadership; provide a space for sharing experiences and for networking to
mobilize women for change; and offer state-of-the-art leadership training for
the empowerment of young Rwandan women.
Rwanda Women's Network (RWN) is one of the four partner institutes of the African Centers of Excellence (ACE) for Women's Leadership program run by the Institute of International Education (IIE) , Ethiopia Office.
For more on IIE , ACE or RWN please follow the links below.
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