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We called ourselves the Wisdom Women
and named the online program we created,
Wisdom Wednesdays. The program airs every
fortnight and since its inception in March 2020,
we have hosted 24 stimulating shows, with
thousands of people watching from across the
world. While the show is conducted in English,
our mission is to translate to Sinhala and Tamil
languages so as to reach the wider Sri Lankan
audience
Wisdom https://youtube.com/channel/
UC28pnsQlhE1Y5BtYOSU6ZMQ
The team is united in the mission to “Empower
Wednesdays women to empower women.”
The thirty year war and underlying
ethnic strife demands that women lead the way
and the Power
in peacebuilding and reconciliation. The Wisdom
Women hope to spell out a serious agenda for
peacemaking by engaging and educating women
of Women across the country to do something within their
power towards this goal.
The Women hope to travel across Sri
Lanka mobilizing women, men and interfaith
groups to understand and explore contextual
During the COVID 19 lockdown in Sri realities and mobilize women to take ownership
Lanka, seven women from diverse religious and for the problems they face. The women will
ethnic backgrounds came together to deliver then be tasked to bring together other like
Wisdom and their message that women must be
minded community members to take action to
empowered and their voices for national unity solve - urgent, relevant, winnable issues in their
must be heard through this movement. respective communities.
They say, “Our mission is to educate and
inspire women. Teach women some basic skills,
but first to let them know they are POWERFUL.
The work at Wisdom Wednesdays has just
begun. “We are taking our show and our gifts on
the road.
We have structured workshops to suit
one day and residential programs for women.
We want to bring them together; inspire them
to build power, and organize the community for
real action.”
Sri Lanka has a womens population
of 52%, with an abysmal parliamentary
representation. Less than 12 % of the
