YWCA Publications

‘Empowering Young Women to Lead Change’ is a training tool for young women to catalyse positive change in their lives and communities. It is designed by and for young women, as part of the World YWCA's commitment to developing effective young women leaders and is available in English, French and Spanish.

The World YWCA took the opportunity at the worlds largest international AIDS conference in Mexico City to launch ‘Nothing About Us Without Us: a report from the HIV-Positive Women’s Forum’ on August 4, 2008.

Every year since 1904, the World YWCA and the World Alliance of YMCAs have issued a joint call to prayer for one week commencing on the second Sunday of November.

In this book you will meet young women from all over the world, who have shaken their communities as peer counselors and educators, as care givers and as people living openly with HIV or AIDS; giving hope to many and promoting a humanistic response to the pandemic.

Prepared by YWCA members around the world, these Bible studies focus on refugees and immigrants, women and work, women and their bodies, health and the environment, justice and peace.

Author Anna Rice describes the first YWCA work in Great Britain.

Historian Carole Seymour-Jones chronicles the turbulent years of 1945-1994.