Adeng Leek on Clubhouse

Bio

Ms. Adeng Leek, Youth and Women Activist, Currently an Executive Director of South Sudan Women Empowerment Network which is is a non-profit, non-partisan, and non-governmental organization founded in 2005. Our focus is on the empowerment of women through programs that encourage women’s participation in decision-making, gender, and human rights advocacy. We envision South Sudanese society free of gender bias; where women are empowered, self-reliant and enjoy fundamental rights.

Member of the Technical Committee for the Commission for Truth, Reconciliation and Healing (CTRH) which is mandated to carry out community consultation and to carry out nationwide sensitization on the Truth, Healing and reconciliation South Sudan, Member of the Transitional Justice working group, Chairing Women Human Right Defenders cluster as well as member of the Human Right Defender Network.

Her Education background is Bachelor of Arts in (History, Economics, and Political Science) with Christ University, Bangalore, India. Currently, pursuing her Postgraduate Diploma in project Management with University of Essex in the UK. She doesn’t believe in impossibility but possibility, she believes in challenges and obstacles as part of growth and change. She is God’s serving child and she respects all cultures and religions. She is open to learning and sharing experience