Would you like to unlock your full potential to champion and lead action to tackle violence against women and girls (VAWG)?
At LAWRS, we are looking for 10 enthusiastic Latin American Young Women aged 18 to 24, based in London, to join our Young Women’s Advisory Board for one year 🥳
What’s it about? 🤔
The Young Women’s Advisory Board is an initiative by the Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS) and its project for girls and young women: Sin Fronteras. The programme seeks to train Latin American Young Women for collective action at the intersection of migration, age, gender, amongst other issues.
This programme provides you with theoretical and practical skills in feminist leadership and advocacy that you will be able to apply in your life, your career, and with your community.
The program will be held in English and Spanish and meetings will be in-person in London.
Policy, sorority and leadership!
Who’s it for? 🤷🏽♀️
Latin American Young Women aged 18 to 24*, based in London, are invited to participate in the Young Women’s Advisory Board and will receive a stipend to support their engagement in the programme (at London Living Wage levels).
* This also includes first and second generation young women with Latin American ethnicity and European/UK nationality.
* You must be at most 24 years old by the time of submitting the application form.
How? 👩🏽💻
The one year programme (May 2025 – March 2026) consists of 12 Leadership and Advocacy training sessions and group meetings about tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) as Latin American young migrant women advocates, and 3 organisational planned activities (LAWRS’ Annual General Meeting (AGM), LAWRS’ International Women’s Day event (IWD), and the International Women’s Day Million Women Rise March).
Programme Timeline 🗓️
Programme Starts: Saturday 10th May 2025!
Leadership and Advocacy training sessions and group meetings:
All of these will take place on Saturdays from 11am – 3 pm, in-person in London.
- 10th of May 2025
- 24th of May 2025
- 7th of June 2025
- 21st of June 2025
- 5th of July 2025
- 19th of July 2025
- 2nd of August 2025
- 13th of September 2025
- 27th of September 2025
- 25th of October 2025
- 22nd of November 2025
- 6th of December 2025
Organisational planned activities:
- 8th of November 2025: LAWRS’s Annual General Meeting (AGM).
- 28th of February 2026: LAWRS’s International Women’s Day Event (IWD).
- 7th of March 2026: International Women’s Day: Million Women Rise March
Program Ends: Saturday 7th March 2026.
* Throughout the year we expect to have participative activities where the YWAB can amplify their network and uptake action. These are highly recommended activities, however they are not compulsory and will not be financially compensated.
Benefits 🤩
With the Young Women’s Advisory Board you can: gain skills, meet new people, and influence LAWRS’ policy work bringing young migrant women’s voices to the centre of the organisation and the public debate.
Get involved in the work that we do, get paid for your time, gain valuable experience to include in your CV, get trained in leadership and activism, and be invited to LAWRS events and beyond!
This is your chance to create a more equal world for girls and young women, participate in a collective social change actions programme to tackle violence against women and girls (VAWG), and shape LAWRS’ policy work.
Apply Now! 🙋🏽♀️
Apply online using our Application Form: ➡️ ➡️ https://forms.gle/PXK37PotgJyS1sr29 ⬅️ ⬅️
Applications open until Friday 25th April 2025.
Please note that completion of the application form does not guarantee a place in the programme.
If your application is accepted, you will be invited to an interview. The interviews (30 minutes approximately) are going to be conducted online, on the 28th April and 1st May at some point between 10am and 4pm.
If selected, you are expected to attend the opening session on Saturday 10th May 2025.
Contact 🤳🏼
Melissa, the project coordinator, would be happy to talk to you if you have any questions or need support with your application. You can contact her at: sinfronteras@lawrs.org.uk / 07802 645001.
We would be grateful if you could also share this information with your network as we want to ensure many young women know about this opportunity, especially those with a passion to make a difference in the lives of women and girls.
Thank you for taking an interest, we can’t wait to hear from you! 🥰