Women Across Differences (WAD)

About us

Women Across Differences (WAD) is a national network of women and women’s organizations committed to individual and social transformation in Guyana.
Women Across Differences (WAD) is a non-governmental organization, which came into being in 1996, and was launched in 1999.
WAD is an organization which enables women to empower themselves through access to social and economic resources. It provides a forum for women to meet and encourages them to make their collective voices heard in the area of Public Policy.

Vision
Women Across Differences (WAD) promoting social cohesion.

Focus Areas:
• Empowerment of women and girls
• Education and training
• Gender based violence
• Advocacy
• Community development

Goals
• To increase women s participation in and influence on public policy in Guyana.
• To develop and sustain a national network of informed and empowered women, willing to and capable of bringing about change in their lives and those of others in their communities, through sustained dialogue and ready action.

Objectives:
• To facilitate women s individual and collective efforts in working together across the usual dividing lines such as age, race/ethnicity, class political partisanship and location.
• To carry out sustained public discussion and advocacy on critical community and national issues.
• To lobby and protest, wherever they emerge, against violations of the rights of women and of vulnerable groups in the society.
• To foster self-development of members of the network.

Programmes:
• Comprehensive Empowerment program for Adolescent Mothers: The main aim of the program is reducing unplanned pregnancies among adolescent mothers/girls and enhancing their life skills and competencies. They are equipped with sexual reproductive health and family planning education, self-development training and vocational skills training.
• Empowering parents/guardians through positive parenting skills: The goal of the project is to empower parents/guardians, through positive parenting training, raising awareness on unintended and early pregnancy among vulnerable youths through ICT and furnishing of WAD’s satellite office in St. Ignatius, Region #9.

Denese Griffith is the Administrative Assistant at Women Across Differences (WAD).

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.