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Empowering Women to Empower Communities

Experience Empowerment CEDPA believes women can change the world.

Over the past 35 years, CEDPA has trained more than 5,000 women and men from Albania to Zambia. These individuals, our alumni, have gone on to head government ministries, serve as members of parliament, and become elected to the highest levels of public office. They have proven the power of women's leadership to change the world.

In 2010, CEDPA's 35th anniversary, we will introduce to 35 of our amazing women leaders. Read on to meet them.


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Featured Alumni Stories

Creating a Safe Space

“In my city, you do don’t see a visible movement of people living with HIV,” says Verónica Feicán Carrasco, consultant and CEDPA alumna.

Finding Your Footing

“I find it very rewarding that at least I’m directly connected with [the women], and, in whatever way possible, whatever I’m contributing is for them to come forward,”

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