About us

The NGO Pan African Women’s Association (PAWA) was founded in 1998 in Kisumu, Kenya by Yvonne Apiyo Brändle-Amolo. What started out as a small orphanage has grown to become a transnational NGO with two orphanages, a women’s safe house and a mentoring program/peer-to-peer coaching for youth and adults. PAWA’s primary goal is to improve the welfare of the Africans and African diaspora in Europe by offering on-site help. We achieve this goal by combatting racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance of minorities, thereby affording our community with improved security and quality of life in their hometowns. Although we are femme-oriented, we deal with the family unit as a whole, leaving no one behind.

We are nonpartisan and non-profit.​

The content of this page will host a Vlog of our passions in connection to people of African Descent.

Focus: Afrofuturism, Mentoring, Black joy, Politics, Gender & Postcolonialism. 

Goal: ​ Spreading Black joy, one smile at a time through Afrofuturism!

We also provide free PDFs on the topics we tackle, transscripts of our vlogs and further links on the topics if available.