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In Tanzania, Women's Action Towards Economic Development (WATED) has been working closely with women in rural settings, as well as with the local government on issues concerning land rights and economic justice.

For AWID member Meher Bano Mirzayee, experiences and dreams are strongly connected to hard work. The education she completed so far was driven by hard work and the wish to challenge and change the way in which Afghan society views girls and women.

Meet AWID member, Angila Ashitua, a young woman from Vihiga county in Western Kenya who  is contesting Kenya's next general elections in August 2017.

Rama is a young Senegalese feminist, researcher and writer. In her early twenties, she wrote her first novel La dernière lettre. A year later she was selected as a MILEAD fellow of the Moremi initiative for Women’s Leadership in Africa.

Some of the objectives of the Trust include raising awareness and increasing knowledge of HIV and AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections among sexual minorities.

Launched in 2008, the mission of Vie Féminine et Handicap is to fight against poverty among women living with disability in Senegal and globally, but especially across the African continent.

Nana Adjoa Sifa Amponsah dreams of “a society where young women graduates are proud to be ‘agripreneurs’, agricultural entrepreneurs, and where the smallholder farmer gets value for money”.

“In our struggle for equality, we tend to forget that women are also mothers (if they chose to be). The rights of mothers are also women's rights” says Aleksandra Miletić-Šantić, a lawyer and single mother of three children.

The Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) - advocating for free, safe, and legal abortion in Ireland - has been an AWID member since May 2015. It is a grassroots, non-hierarchical, all-volunteer organization and is autonomous in its pro-choice activism.

Iniobong, an AWID member since January 2015, is an Irish citizen with Nigerian roots. She was forced to leave Nigeria after experiencing domestic, abuse.