Author: Ilana Landsberg Lewis

Listen to the podcast interview about about TEWWY at https://www.wisdomatworkpodcast.com/introducing-tap-elderly-womens-wisdom-for-youth/ For more information about TEWWY, please visit their website at: https://www.mhinnovation.net/organisations/tap-elderly-womens-wisdom-youth-tewwy Elder Wisdom Leading Community Healing is a deeply rooted community mental healthproject shaped by the lived experiences and frontlines insights of TEWWY’s sevenelderly Wisdom & Wellness Counselors. These retired women, now trained ‘non-specialist’ providers […]

Listen to the Wisdom at Work podcast interview about the the Abuelas at https://www.wisdomatworkpodcast.com/we-will-not-back-down-the-angry-tias-and-abuelas/ We are an NGO whose objective is to restore the identity of children who wereappropriated during the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina.This project aims to support the operation of the Spontaneous Presentations area of theGrandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo by […]

Visit the Barefoot College Latin America at https://www.barefootcollege-guatemala.org/ Barefoot College International trains opportunity-seeking women from rural villages tobecome solar engineers. In partnership with local and national organizations, theBarefoot team establishes relationships with village elders, who help identify traineesand implement community support. Trainees are often illiterate or semi-literate grandmothers who maintain strong roots intheir villages and play […]

To learn more about the Okere Community Development Project, please visit their website at: https://www.okerecity.org The Areokwan Initiative is a community-led adult literacy and empowerment programmedesigned to uplift grandmothers in Otuke District, Uganda. Rooted in the belief that ageshould never be a barrier to learning, Aerokwan equips Grandmothers – many of whomhave been excluded from […]

To learn more about the Women’s Tribunal Feminist Collective, please visit their website at: https://wiwct.org. The Women’s Tribunal Feminist Collective will focus on design, research andarrangement of an official interactive website for the Women’s International War CrimesTribunal, and chart the blueprint for writing its history.The WIWCT website, in its initial stage, will make documents and […]

To learn more about the Grandmother’s Wisdom Archive Project, please visit their website at: https://www.grandmotherswisdom.org. This initiative is dedicated to safeguarding and sharing over 20 years of rare andunreleased footage, photographs, audio recordings and written texts from theInternational Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers.The Grandmothers’ teachings offer profound guidance on healing, environmentalstewardship, and the interconnectedness of […]