29/08/2026
🌸 FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING 🌸
As we come to the end of Women’s Month, Lesedi La Setjhaba keeps thinking about one thing: every woman has a story to tell. ❤️
A story of where she comes from.
A story of what she has overcome.
A story of lessons, losses, victories, and new beginnings.
But most importantly, your past does not define you.
Our work is aligned with the GBV mandate, and while we must continue having difficult conversations around gender-based violence, we strongly believe that prevention must also include solutions, opportunities, and economic empowerment.
So this time around, our approach was intentional.
We did not want the conversation to center only around the painful and depressing realities women face. We wanted to ask:
What can we do differently?
What opportunities can we create?
How can we equip women to become economically independent?
How can we turn ideas into businesses and skills into opportunities?
Empowerment is not only about telling a woman that she deserves better.
It is also about equipping her with the knowledge, confidence, skills, and opportunities to build better. 🌱
Economic independence can be an important part of GBV prevention because when women are empowered economically, they can have greater choices, greater agency, and greater opportunities to shape their own futures.
That is why our theme became:
✨ FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING. ✨
Not because we ignore the realities women face, but because we refuse to let those realities be the end of the story.
We want women to know that there can be life after survival.
There can be purpose after pain.
There can be opportunity after disappointment.
There can be a business after an idea.
There can be a new chapter after a difficult past.
Your story matters, but your story is not over. ❤️
As Women’s Month comes to an end, may we continue creating spaces where women are not only heard but equipped, empowered, and given opportunities to thrive.
From surviving.
To rebuild.
To becoming.
To thriving. 💃🏼✨
This was the vision. This was the conversation. This is why I pushed for this event. ❤️
