Through our affiliation with the World WOI, WOI is part of a global movement to elevate the status of girls and women. Founded in 1855 in the United Kingdom by Lady Mary Jane Kinnaird and Emma Roberts, the movement spread quickly around the world and has been at the forefront of advancing women’s rights in areas such as the European refugee crisis after World War II and apartheid in South Africa. Today, the World WOI works for women’s empowerment, leadership and rights in more than 120 countries and 20,000 local communities. The World WOI’s members and supporters are incredibly diverse, encompassing women from many different faiths, ages, backgrounds, beliefs and cultures.

They are united by a shared vision that by 2035, 100 million young women and girls will transform power structures to create justice, gender equality and a world without violence and war, leading a sustainable WOI movement, inclusive of all women.