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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Love + Sisterhood: A Love Note to you.

Dear Sisters,

Thank you for being so amazing and so awesome. This is a special love note to you on International Women's Day to tell you how much we appreciate your support as well as your input in letting us continue to grow every year. You are all such a blessing and today we just want to CELEBRATE you! We here at Women Change Africa would like to wish you all a Happy International Women's Day 2016.

This year we are celebrating positive sisterhood relationships! We hope you can all join us this year in shining light and celebrating the women who you treasure as sisters and who are part of uplifting you, your work, your community etc. Happy IWD 2016. We look forward to sharing your love notes and we love you sisters.

Moiyattu Banya is Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Women|Change|Africa. She has over 10 years plus experience on working on women and gender issues both on the African continent and in the diaspora and has lead digital campaigns, and communication strategies for a multiple of women owned brands and organizations. Out of her passion to tell stories both in the digital space and in writing, she created WCA in 2012. The platform has celebrated over 50+ brands, companies and organizations owned by African women living both in the diaspora and on the continent. In 2014 she was selected out of 200 women to participate in the African Women’s Development Fund Creative Non Fiction Writing Course in Entebbe Uganda an experience that forever changed her writing journey. She is a social entrepreneur by training and has a masters in social enterprise and administration from Columbia University’s School of Social work.