Olla Mahadi
Sudan
I constantly work on deepening my analytical capacity on issues such as gender, feminist and
movement building as well as human rights.
I work in Sudan as a Programme Officer for the Salmmah Women Resource
Centre. My first introduction to this work was through Sudanese Women’s
Empowerment for Peace (SuWEP). As a young Sudanese woman working in
a non –governmental organisation, I committed myself to learning and also to
dedicating myself to fully engage in peace issues as an advocate and activist.
My work currently involves providing updates to and of the Sudanese women
peace building movement. In addition, as I provide technical support that is
needed in our daily office work and provide support using web tools for our
campaigns and activities.
women, so we need to network, develop new strategies and we also need to
reflect on our existing strategies. In addition to this, we need to continue raising
the awareness of the injustices women face, as well as of our efforts to address
this. This will ensure that more people (both men and women) who identify
with what we share could join our efforts, and we will also build a chronology
of evidence of our work for future generations. A good way to do this is to
augment the current African Feminist Charter with real stories of women from
all ages and countries as they use it and as they grapple with the principles
and ideology of feminism in reality.
I call myself a feminist because I strongly believe that women and men should
have equal rights. On a daily basis I commit my efforts to the realisation of
women’s human rights as an extension of this belief. My work has allowed
me over th R