Shifting Ideas Through Education for African Women, Inc. (SITEAW, INC.)

SITEAW, INC. works with all people irrespective of religion, race, color, gender or status. We believe that everyone has something to offer in making a difference in another person’s life. SITEAW initiates educational programs and support groups to empower women and children fight for their rights, improve their lives and live as full human beings.

Many societies (especially in Africa) practice gender discrimination and impose oppressive traditions, rituals and taboos to women.

Women Circumcision, inheriting of women, big dowry, premature marriage, women beating, women trafficking, sexual abuse, rape, labor abuse; all work load even when they are sick or pregnant, blocking women creativity and critical thinking, abusing them at home and at work, generalizing about women, bias in court, exploitation by churches and other religious groups, deprivation of: education, self actualization, freedom of expression and participation in communal activities, exclusion in decision making, job discrimination, denial of equal pay for same jobs and services-are all terrible chains that need to be broken. And the time to do that is now.

Women are the primary teachers of society, denying them education is denying society the greatest tool of growth and development. Let us hold every woman denied a right to education by the hand and raise her up.