What's GirlDreamer doing for #IWD2024 you ask? Well, nothing.
Hear us out ...
As a women-led and women-focused organisation, every day is essentially women's day for us.
So last year, with a busy winter to spring period, we didn't have additional capacity to do something big for IWD and were so exhausted from the run up, that we decided to rest. Our IWD was spent taking the day off and it was glorious.
We had energy and capacity to either do nothing or just simply turn up and be in attendance to other wonderful events, talks and opportunities to learn. It was such a strange but wholesome experience - some of us loved being a guest on this day and others just took a day off and so we decided to do it again!
Our take is that it's all about intentionality and genuine engagement. If you're doing something epic today for IWD, either personally or through your organisation, more power to you and in fact, we might be turning up to one of your events! And if you're not, and are also deciding to give yourself the day off, then rest up, you deserve it!
Whichever it is, it's always a personal choice that we should honour. It doesn't make us any more or any less, so whether you are genuinely opting in or genuinely opting out - we wish you a happy international women's day and as always, we love and appreciate you all.
#GirlDreamer #iwd2024 #womensday2024 #internationalwomensday
Director of Fundraising, United for Global Mental Health
1moThank you for being such brilliant mental health champions! It was fabulous to see so many of you at AIDS 2024. Safe travels and I hope you all get some well deserved rest.