WHEN WOMEN COME TOGETHER CHANGE HAPPENS
About #20MWS
The mission of 20 Million Women Strong (#20MWS) is to create a movement around the world for women, children, families, and the Earth, born of the conviction that, when women stand up together, change happens!
#20MWS acts with urgency to establish partnerships, programs, and opportunities to train and prepare women, women of color, LGBTQ, women with disabilities, and children to excel in education, careers, and entrepreneurial opportunities for successful living. #20MWS places a particular emphasis on advancing access to abundance in all aspects of their lives, including access to careers and entrepreneurial opportunities in science, technology, engineering, the arts, math, and spirituality.
#20MWS Initiatives
Redemption Voyage 2026
In November 2025, nine young women and nine young men between the ages of 21 and 28, of African descent, from the United States, will set sail for the West Coast of Africa on a commissioned ship, for what will be a 6-month journey. Launching from Mobile, AL, the voyage will reverse the route of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive to the U.S. from Benin (then named Dahomey) in 1860, with 110 kidnapped Africans, which was illegal by that time.
The “Redemption Voyagers” will bring the world with them across the Atlantic Ocean to Benin, Ghana, The Gambia, and Senegal, where they will be welcomed by the elders and be reunited with family. Voyagers will return to the U.S. from Senegal by way of Fort Monroe in Hampton, VA (noted as the location of the arrival of the first Africans to English-speaking North America in the year 1619), followed by Charleston, SC, and then complete the epic journey in Mobile, AL where it began.
Global Action Days
In our effort to unite women, raise awareness, and uplift communities around the world, #20MWS Global Action Days align with various UN International Days of Observance each year, including:
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 – World Day for Social Justice
Friday, March 8, 2024 – International Women’s Day
Thursday, March 21, 2024 – International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; International Day of Forests; World Poetry Day
Friday, March 22, 2024 – World Water Day
Monday, April 22, 2024 – Earth Day
Friday, June 21, 2024 – International Day of Yoga
Friday, August 9, 2024 – International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Saturday, September 21, 2024 – International Day of Peace
Voice Your Support of #20MWS
Donate to #20MWS
20 Million Women Strong (#20MWS) creates sacred spaces for women, children, families, and the Earth, grounded in the awareness of our collective radiance and transformative power, to create a world that works for everyone.
Your generous contribution goes to support #20MWS initiatives including Redemption Voyage 2026, a multi-year international project engaging next-generation HBCU students on a voyage of lifetime to heal the wounds of slavery, past and current, and its painful, traumatic impact on generations of formerly enslaved people of African descent.
20 Million Women Strong is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your donation is tax-deductible.