The Advancement for the Status of Women (ASW)  which is the multi-sectoral think-tank and an intergenerational platform of accomplished and emerging women leaders was recently launched at Blue Valley Clubhouse, Midrand on the 7th August 2009.

The ASW fundamentally accepts that its participants are leaders in their own right and who can best excel in their respective areas of endeavor on the basis of a common belief that societies never advance to higher levels of development unless its members take the initial step to effect the changes that affirm humanity, dignity, equality, liberation, justice and peace.

The aims of the ASW are to build a community of women leaders that society can count on as role models for its youth

•·         Africa's reality is afflicted by factors of underdevelopment resulting in hunger, poverty, conflict, disease and powerlessness. The women's movement's redress initiatives should not lose sight of these exigencies.

•·         Africa's setting is strained by the weakening and collapse of families and communities, which are fundamental to societal well-being;

•·         Africa's experience is further burdened by an unending colonial hangover where solutions are mainly inspired from without rather than within the African Experience.