Madrid, 15th of July 2021. Women for Africa’s new project in the scientific field, FUERTES, has completed its first edition training phase with the leadership seminar for women in science...
Madrid, the 12th of July 2021. Women for Africa Foundation has just issued new invitations for two of its main programmes, Learn Africa Canarias’ third offer of courses designed by...
Madrid, the 30th of June 201. This afternoon, Science by Women International Scientific Committee’s third meeting consisting of a dozen renowned African and European women and men in science was...
Madrid, the 29th of June 2021. There were no women net menders in Morocco, the women who mend fishing nets, let alone an association bringing them together. And yet they...
7th of June 2021. Women for Africa’s new project has started today in the district of Jangamo, province of Inhambane, Mozambique. The aim of the project is to strengthen women's...
25th of May 2021. The University of Seville is celebrating today, under the presidency of its Rector, Miguel Ángel Castro, a celebration event for Africa Day in which Women for...
20 May 2021. The second session of the Women and Mediation Workshop in Mali and the Central African Republic, an activity set up by the Women's Alliance for Peace, which...
17th of May, 2021. From today until June 6, African women university students can submit their applications to access the scholarships of Learn Africa program of the Women for Africa...
7th of May. The closing ceremony of the public health emergency course for Ghanaian nurses was held today in a crowded online ceremony. It was promoted by Women for Africa...
6th of May. In November 2019, the great scientist Margarita Salas passed away. She was the godmother and supporter of our Ellas Investigan program since its inception. Her position on...
28th of April 2021. Today was the graduation ceremony of the fifth edition of our Launch & Grow project, aimed at Kenyan women entrepreneurs, which we organised in collaboration with...
27th of April 2021. Today, the Women for Africa Foundation has participated in a meeting of NATO's Civil Society Advisory Panel to examine the review process of NATO's Policy on...
23th of April 2021. Yesterday, the former Moroccan Minister of Family Nouzha Skalli, in charge of women's affairs in Morocco, presented an online lecture as part of the Digital Teaching...
21st of April 2021. The Women for Africa Foundation and the Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII by its Spanish acronym) have signed an agreement under which the ISCIII will...
Madrid, 14th of April 2021. The seventh edition of the Strategic Leadership Forum at Yale, organized by Women for Africa in collaboration with the University of Yale and with the...
Madrid, 17th of March 2021. María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, President of the Women for Africa, has attended this afternoon the series of conferences organized by the Karama Organization...
Madrid, 9th of April 2021. Pedro Sánchez, President of the Government, accompanied by Cristina Gallach, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and for Ibero-America and the Caribbean, and Olga Cabarga,...
Nador, 30th of March 2021. At our African headquarters in Nador has finished the Unidas y Poderosas project which, for two years, has worked with more than 50 women in...
Madrid, 22nd of March 2021. This afternoon, the Governing Committee of the Science by Women project, which is now in its seventh edition, has held an online meeting, chaired by...
Madrid, 22nd of March 2021. This week, the Ministry of Economy, Knowledge and Employment of the Government of Canarias and the Women for Africa Foundation have opened the second application...
Madrid, 8 March 2021. Today, on the emblematic date of 8 March, the course on acting on public health emergencies for nurses in Ghana begins, in which around 130 professionalsfrom...
Madrid, 3th of March 2021. Next Monday is 8th of March, International Women’s Day, and we will celebrate it with one of our most loved initiatives. Collaborating with the Cervantes...
23/02/2021. The first seven African scholarship holders of the Learn Africa Canarias programme, promoted by the Women for Africa Foundation and the Ministry of Economy, Knowledge and Employment of the...
Madrid, 18 February 2021. The Alliance of Women for Peace, an initiative born out of the partnership between the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations and the Women for Africa Foundation,...
Madrid, 28 January 2021. Suzi Carla Barbosa has come to Spain on a working visit. Relations between the two countries are growing closer every day, contacts and economic exchanges are...
Madrid, 23 December 2020. The list of African women scientists selected for the sixth edition of the Science by Women program has been made public today. There are 20 female...
Madrid, 15 December 2020. The sixth edition of the Yale Strategic Leadership Forum, organised by Women for Africa in collaboration with Yale University and with the support of Banco Santander...
Madrid, 15th December 2020. The Director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Montero, and the President of the Women for Africa Foundation, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, signed this...
Madrid, 15th December 2020. The sixth edition of the Strategic Leadership Forum at Yale, organised by Women for Africa in collaboration with the University and with the support of Banco...
Madrid, December 14th, 2020. Today a virtual conference was held to open the Elearning course for teachers at the Mohamed I University of Oujda. Training promoted by Mujeres por África...
The grants, worth a total of 170,000 euros, are aimed at African female university students who wish to take one of the online courses offered by the two Canarian public...
On the 23rd of November, a conference will take place on "The future of the Women's Peace and Security Agenda", in which the Minister of Defence, Margarita Robles, the President...
Madrid, November 13, 2020. Mitigating the Economic Impacts of the Pandemic on African Women is the title of the new Women for Africa and Yale University webinar, to be held...
Madrid, November 6, 2020. On November 9, 2020, the webinar “The power of women and good governance in the COVID-19 era” will take place. The Women for Africa Foundation, the...
Barcelona, 29th September 2020. The President of Grupo Planeta, José Creuheras; María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, President of the Mujeres por África, and Carlos Giménez, CEO of Planeta Formación...
Madrid, October 14th, 2020. The General Council of Nurses (CGE) and the Women for Africa Foundation (FMxA) have signed a collaboration agreement to work together on various agreements in the...
Madrid, October 26, 2020. Despite the coronavirus, despite all the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, the eighth edition of Ellas son Cine has been a great success with the public....
Madrid, september 2, 2020. Since September, the Mujeres por África Foundation has become a member of NATO's Civil Society Advisory Panel. This panel was created in 2016 to promote a...
Madrid, October 7, 2020. The different training programs that take place in Nador, our African headquarters, in order to support women's cooperativism, continue to develop despite the coronavirus. At the...
Madrid, 5th October. Once again, and this year for the eighth time, Ellas son Cine returns to the screens to present the work of African directors to the public. And...
Madrid, 28 September. On Thursday, 1 October, the Women for Africa Foundation and Yale University will be holding a webinar on the subject of “African women as pillars of resilience....
Madrid, 16th of July. Today, after five editions of great success, The Women for Africa Foundation (FMxA), in line with its mission of contributing to the development of Africa through...
Madrid, 8th July. Today, the NOWISAFRICA network (Network of Women Scientists Innovating in Africa) has been formally constituted in its first plenary meeting, which brings together more than 40 women...
Madrid, 1st July. Since the 1st of July the call for Learn Africa scholarships for the 2020-2021 academic year is open. This program is addressed to African female university students...
Madrid, 30th of June. This afternoon was held a virtual meeting with the leaders of the Alliance of Women for Peace. Miguel Ángel Moratinos, High Representative of the Alliance of...
Madrid, June 29. Today, the sixth edition of the Strategic Leadership Forum organized by Women for Africa has begun, in collaboration with Yale University and with the support of Banco...
Madrid, 25th June. In Women for Africa, one of the goals we set when the coronavirus pandemic broke out was all our projects could go ahead. So, we are in...
Madrid, 2nd June 2020. The Women for Africa Foundation held a virtual meeting today, with the first ten researchers to benefit from the project FUERTES (Femmes Unies Ensemble dans la...
Madrid, May 28. In November 2019, the Intermares marine vessel of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Government of Spain landed at the Moroccan city of Nador for...
Madrid, 22nd May. Since the start of its activities in 2012, the Women for Africa Foundation has dedicated most of its health efforts to care for obstetric fistula. A neglected,...
Madrid, May 19. Women for Africa is adapting its projects to the new situation created by the coronavirus pandemic. The goal is to ensure that women, particularly African women, are...
Madrid, May 14. On the afternoon of this date, a videoconference meeting was held by the Advisory Council of the Women for Peace Alliance, an initiative promoted by the Women...
The Women for Africa Foundation, together with its African advisers, has published an institutional statement with the main objective of not stepping back on Equality and making women, and especially...
Madrid, April 1, 2020. Today is the 80th anniversary of the birth of Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to receive a Nobel Prize, the Peace prize, for her contribution...
Madrid, March 17, 2020. As many people and entities are doing to contribute to a more enriching use of time in these days of confinement, Women for Africa makes the...
In compliance with the State of Emergency declared by the Spanish Government, all workers and collaborators of the Foundation Women for Africa are tele-working in all our projects and programs....
The ceremony, headed by H.M. the Queen of Spain, will be attended by Moroccan and Spanish personalities from political, economic and academic spheres. Madrid, 28th June, 2018. Next 3rd July the Phare Nador project...
25th May, 2018. To celebrate Africa Day, the Women for Africa Foundation (MxA) is holding its annual “African Women in Spain” photography contest, whose purpose is to document and raise awareness...
17th May, 2018. In the coming weeks, Women for Africa plans to present its big project for the immediate future. The Nador Lighthouse is to be a space dedicated to education...
New Haven, May 11th 2017. In May 2015, ten African women political leaders from five African countries inaugurated an area for debate at Yale University to delve into big global matters...
The actress starring in I Am Not a Witch, the film directed by the Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni, has won the award for best actress at the African Film Festival FCAT,...
The prestigious Boston business school, Babson College, has bestowed the 2018 Lewis Institute Community Changemaker Award upon our president María Teresa Fernández de la Vega. This award, which was handed...
There are two first prizes of 2,500 euros in the categories of narrative and research work. 23rd April, 2018. Once again this year, the Women for Africa Foundation (MxA) is joining...
Tuesday, 18th April. The Spanish Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Environment (MAPAMA), Isabel García Tejerina, and the president of Women for Africa, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, today signed...
The agreement will be signed tomorrow by Bonet and Fernández de la Vega, with a talk. Madrid, 2nd April, 2018. The director of the Cervantes Institute, Juan Manuel Bonet, and the...
Madrid, 9th March 2018. Accra, the capital of Ghana, will host next Sunday March 11th the inaugural reunion of the alumni of the Yale Forum for Strategic Impact, the first meeting in...
Madrid, 8th March, 2018. On International Women’s Day, this 8th March the women who work and collaborate with the Women for Africa Foundation will be supporting the feminist strike organised by the...
Madrid, 30th January, 2018. The Women for Africa Foundation and the NSIA Foundation (Nouvelle Société Interafricaine d’Assurance) have today signed a collaboration framework agreement by which the two entities will foster...
Madrid, 17th January. The Spanish Professional Medical Associations Organisation (Organización Médica Colegial, OMC), through its Foundation for International Cooperation (FCOMCI), has signed a collaboration agreement with the Women for Africa Foundation...
Madrid, 16th January. María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, the president of Women for Africa, and Gloria Campos García de Quevedo, the founder and director of the event management school ISEMCO,...
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