Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE)

10/05/2026

Happy World Fair Trade Day! 🎊

Today we want to celebrate all the people who work hard to make our values a reality! To the incredible entrepreneurs, artisans, farmers and changemakers, to the designers, distributors and shoppers, your everyday actions are at the heart of our and show that together we are a collective force for !

Thank you for being the reason we believe in what we do. Let's celebrate together and continue to work for a future for ! 🫶

Together we are the Business Revolution! Visit wfto.com to learn more about our values, members, and objectives.

30/04/2026

Subject: Gratitude for Your Volunteer Intent – World Conference on Women’s Studies 2026

Dear Friends,

We extend our heartfelt thanks to each of you for responding to our call. We have received many letters of intent expressing willingness to volunteer for the World Conference on Women’s Studies 2026 in Chiang Mai from the 28th to 30th of May. Your enthusiasm and commitment to advancing women’s voices and global solidarity mean so much.

We are pleased to inform you that the volunteer selection process has now been completed. Selected volunteers will be contacted directly with next steps.

With deep appreciation,
WEAVE Foundation

23/04/2026

🌍 Calling Volunteers in Chiang Mai!

WEAVE is proud to collaborate in the World Conference on Women’s Studies 2026 (May 28-30, Chiang Mai). Join us in amplifying women’s voices, fostering global solidarity, and supporting a space where ideas, advocacy, and impact come together.

Your contribution, big or small, helps make this meaningful gathering possible.

Send your letter of intent to [email protected].

✨ Be part of the change. Become a volunteer for WCWS 2026.

30/03/2026

We are super proud!

Today March 30, 2026 - 30 young Karenni girls successfully graduated from the Women Study Program, a 10-months feminist learning program for displaced girls on the Thai-Myanmar border. For 19 years now the Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE) and the Karenni National Women's Organization walked together to support the empowerment of these girls.

These young women walked a path shaped by courage, discipline, and hope. In a world that often tries to limit women—especially young women from marginalized and displaced communities—30 WSP students chose to learn, to grow, and to believe in their own power. That choice alone is an act of resistance. It is an act of transformation.

Today, we celebrate not just what they have achieved, but of who they are becoming—leaders, changemakers, and women who refuse to be invisible.

Go forward with pride. The world needs your voice, your vision, and your courage.
Congratulations, graduates. Your journey is just beginning.

23/03/2026

A Message of Solidarity from Christine

On International Women’s Day 2026, Christine Wolf, Co-owner of Der Lindwurm (Germany), shares a heartfelt message of solidarity with refugee women artisans.

Together, we stand in support of women building their futures through creativity and craftsmanship.

✨ Celebrate women.
✨ Support their journeys.
✨ Share their stories.

🛍️ Explore and support their work:
www.weavefairtrade.com

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23/03/2026

A Message from Heidi, MADE51 Global Lead (UNHCR)

As we celebrate March as Women's month, we continue to honor refugee women's determination, strength and resilience and we are proud to share a heartfelt message from Heidi Christ, the Global Lead of MADE51 (UNHCR).

Thank you for celebrating with us the incredible refugee women artisans behind Weave Women, whose handmade products carry stories of resilience, strength, and creativity.

From scarves to handcrafted home goods, each piece connects their journeys to the world, turning skill into opportunity and recognition.

✨ Stand with women.
✨ Celebrate their talent.
✨ Be part of their story.

🛍️ Support our work:
www.weavefairtrade.com

20/03/2026

A powerful new chapter of collaboration unfolds ✨

WEAVE is honored to continue its partnership with the Art of Resilience Project by Susu Hauser through a new exhibition at ARTSPACE – People's Studio from May 16 to June 8, 2026 at 201 E. Davie St, Raleigh, NC, and we are super proud!

This exhibition brings to life the artistry, culture, and deeply human stories of women artisans—featuring the strength and spirit of Karen and Karenni women along the Thai–Myanmar border. Through each portrait and handcrafted piece, their resilience, identity, and creativity speak beyond borders.

More than an exhibition, this is a celebration of courage, dignity, and the enduring power of women to transform adversity into beauty and hope.



Mitos Urgel

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Through life-size portraits, artisan interviews, cinematic glimpses of local traditions, and 3D samples of artisan pieces, visitors will be transported to the highlands of Guatemala, the Thai-Burma border, and the Kalahari Desert in Namibia.

19/03/2026

Behind every food pack is a story of strength, care, and community.

With the hovering food crisis on the Thai-Myanmar border, WEAVEwomen ECD teachers and artisans came together to prepare food packs for the refugee girls and women attending the celebration of the 2026 International Women’s Day event. What may look like simple preparation is something much deeper, providing immediate solution to food insecurity, women supporting women, sharing skills, and creating impact with their own hands.

These moments remind us that empowerment is not just a word, it is built through action, collaboration, resilience and solidarity.

This International Women’s Day, we celebrate not only the outcome, but the process, the effort, and our collaborators - WEAVE Fair Trade Co.Ltd, MADE51, Akupara Film&Photo, Imaginepeace_이매진피스_희망을 여행하는 사람들, and the women behind it all.

19/03/2026

When Women Rise, Communities Flourish

38 years of walking alongside women who rise before dawn to weave, teach, organize, and care. This International Women's Month, we celebrate every WEAVEwoman — because when women rise, communities flourish. 🧵❤️

08/03/2026

On this 2026 International Women’s Day, we honor and celebrate the women whose lives have been dedicated to serving their children, their families, and their communities. Women who rise before dawn to weave, to teach, to organize, to care. Women who carry stories of resilience across generations. Women who, despite displacement, continue to build peace and dignity where they stand.

Today March 8, 2026 marks WEAVEwomen's 38 years of empowering women!

Mitos Urgel
Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE)
WEAVE Fair Trade Co.Ltd

05/03/2026