This year's World YWCA Day is about telling stories—we want to put life, voice, sound, music and colour to the stories of women who have brought change to our communities and to the lives of countless women. For your Round-The-World Breakfast we invite you to express the stories of women you honoured or will honour this year.

The Round-the-World Breakfast is an opportunity for every YWCA to hold a fundraising breakfast to celebrate the contributions of women leaders in the YWCA movement and communities. Over 24 hours on April 24, around the world, a YWCA will be sharing and listening to stories of remarkable women leaders who have affected change.

Tips and more

At your Breakfast, you can also share the story of a woman already in the Honouring Women Leaders archive. Featured stories will be available on the World YWCA website by end of March.

The World YWCA website will also feature a special message from the World YWCA General Secretary, video footage of women telling their story and articles on some of the remarkable women who have shown leadership and affected change in the YWCA movement. Listen, read and incorporating them into your World YWCA Day activity.

Honour a woman, make a donation

If you or your association have yet to make a donation to the Power to Change Fund through the Honouring Women Leaders programme we invite you to do so this year. To date, over 200 women have been honoured through the programme.

As you consider women for the Honouring Women Leaders programme, we ask you to reflect on the achievements of past leaders, the impact of current leaders and the value of young emerging leaders. Young women's participation in leading change must be valued and expressed along with the celebration of past and current leaders. Select women of all ages, particularly young women.

Send us information

Please designate a person to send us information and photos on your Round-The-World Breakfast event. Photos, video and articles should be sent to:
joy.yakubu@worldywca.org

Related Links:

• History of the World YWCA Day
• LISTEN to she who speaks: Read the stories of remarkable YWCA women leaders who have affected change
• Round-The-World Breakfast: Tips
• Power to Change Fund: make a donation
• Honouring Women Leaders