The ywca greater charleston is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. The ywca promotes the strengthening of both current and future generations youth and family development in the community and to innovate with new and creative solutions to community issues.

Human Services , Young Mens or Womens Associations

Social justice programs: eliminating racism by offering programs and events that educate the community about overt and systemic discrimination and encourages dialogue to end these destructive practices. The dr. Martin luther king jr. , celebration is south carolina's largest and oldest commemorative tributes to dr. King, attracting more than 30,000 celebrants from every walk of life--each one focused on eliminating racism across our city, state, and nation. The racial equity institute (rei) is a two-day racism training program designed to help leaders and organizations who want to proactively understand and address racism, both in their organization and in the community where the organization is working. Stand against racism is a signature campaign of ywca to raise awareness about the negative impact of institutional and structural racism. empowerment and economic advancement of women and girls: ygirls code (formerly girls who code) is dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology by increasing the number of girls interested in technology and creating a pipeline of future engineers. Additionally, the club environment encourages sisterhood and activities are designed to increase self-awareness, confidence, and esteem. Our backpacks to briefcases free career workshop series teach women skills highly sought after by employers--and that can lead to success in entrepreneurship as well. health and safety of women and girls: christine's corner food pantry in collaboration with the low country food bank prevents hunger for families by providing free groceries to those who would go hungry without the assistance.