Welcome to Issue 26 of Raising Women Magazine, our charity edition. This issue is a tender reflection on the many ways women are lighting up lives through giving, service, and purpose.
Our cover features the graceful Carmen Gonzalez, a woman whose life work blends compassion with strategy. Alongside her are two phenomenal women from award-winning charities in the United Kingdom, showing that impact is not only possible, it is happening every day.
From candid confessions about the performance of charity to our Girl Talk on giving with dignity, this issue peels back the layers of what it means to give authentically. The Find Her Light segment urges us to examine when charity becomes more about personal branding than purpose.
May these stories remind you that charity begins within, and that the true power of giving is not performance, it is transformation.
Let us continue to raise women.
May ikeora
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
DR MAY IKEORA-AMAMGBO (PHD