The Kiribati Uniting Church (KUC), with the United Church of the Solomon Islands (UCSI) and the Methodist Church in Samoa, was selected by the Regional Ecumenical Youth Council (REYC), a wing of the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC), as a partner in organising workshops that will seek to empower and uplift the status and capabilities of women in the Pacific region.
The workshops were the brainchild of a partnership between the World YWCA – a grassroots-driven, global movement rooted in the leadership of women, young women, and girls – and the PCC.
KUC, through the Center for the Youth Christian for Life (YCL), chose the area of empowering women with disability in leadership as a key focus in a workshop.
The workshop, held 4 November at the YCL Center, invited women with disabilities to share their stories on resilience and grit—stories that showed how, despite physical impairments, they still possessed unique potentials that make them good leaders in their various faith communities.
