Purposeful announces $50,000 inaugural Feminist Scholar Award The Purposeful Feminist Scholar Award provides a feminist leader in the Global South and in the diaspora with financial and other support to advance stories about the power of girlhood and the boundless possibilities of girl-led organising. The award is designed to support…

When Mary isn’t in the studio playing Lucy, she is a Programme Coordinator, supporting girls, mentors and partners around Sierra Leone through Purposeful’s Girls’ Circle Collective work. Meanwhile, Isha is a Programme Manager, supporting global and local grantmaking to girl and young women led organisations through our With and For…

Clifford Walker, a DJ from Radio Democracy 98.1 shares his personal view and experience of airing Karo Kura Konection and Kompin in conversation with Victoria Ballah, Programme Coordinator and Isha Abis Kamara, Production Officer. You’ve been playing Karo Kura Konnection and Kompin for over two years now, what has this…

Co-authored by Josephine Kamara, Nyangah Rogers-Wright and Victoria Ballah Since May 2020, we have produced four series of the radio talk show, Karo Kura Konection and it’s drama series, Kompin and through all of these, we have listened to insights and learnings about the impact of the show in the…

Josephine Kamara and Nyangah Rogers-Wright are Purposeful’s radio talk show co-hosts. …

Subtitle: Reflections from a gathering of African feminists “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” Audre Lorde. To amplify change for equality and strengthen young Feminist Movements in Francophone West Africa, Equipop convened a group of powerful, unapologetic…

Parenting While Powering Purposeful — The Team Reflects Yeiwah Kaindaneh with Affia Bertin, Aminata Kamara, Boikanyo Modungwa, Chernor Bah, Josephine Kamara, Kaata Minah, Rosa Bransky From our earliest days, parenting has been encoded into our DNA at Purposeful. Our co-founders launched Purposeful while one was pregnant and the other had…

Purposeful — 3 November 2022 We did it! And we’re taking a breath to mark the power of what happens when over 25 collaborating feminist allies, agencies and partners from over 41 countries come together to accelerate the elimination of sexual and gender based violence. It’s been four months since…

Girls and young feminists bring incredible organising power, creativity, and courage to their activism, working tirelessly to create change in every corner of the world. They are often doing this at great risk to their safety, health, and wellbeing, and with minimal resourcing (less than 1% of global funding). Recently…