#Gratitude notes | #WomenGive - Centering Women's Generosity—#GivingTuesday Africa

This month, in celebration of Women’s History Month—and with #IWD2025 in focus, we set out to collect real, raw, unscripted voice notes. These stories reaffirm what we’ve always known—generosity is limitless.It started with a simple WhatsApp message, @Bidemi sent out a call, asking friends and networks to share small or big “generosity moments” by women in their lives.With consent to share, the message traveled further, passed from one person to another, and before we knew it, voice notes began to pour in. Today, we’ve compiled—and are still compiling—these powerful reflections into a gro

#Gratitude notes | #WomenGive - Centering Women's Generosity—#GivingTuesday Africa is a business podcast hosted by GivingTuesday Africa Hub, with 32 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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  Episode #6

  #GoGrandma with Mrs Eleanor Bageine - Strategies for the Next Generation

  Oct 2, 202611 min

  Used across Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Afripods. "With the fastest technology today, grandmothers have a lot of learning to do and it is the young ones to teach them and also provide online safety." A grandmother asking for digital skills training, and naming young people as the ones qualified to deliver it. For four episodes of #GoGrandma we have had people talk about grandmothers. This time a grandmother talks back. Mrs Eleanor Bageine is a grandmother of more than twenty in Uganda and a member of the Lions Club there. Somewhere in her community is a group of women who can read because she organised and facilitated a programme to teach them. Some of them now handle their own affairs and read aloud in church. There was no funder and no record of it anywhere. She says giving is free, and lists what she means: a smile, a prayer, words of wisdom, checking on someone. She says young people learn generosity by watching rather than being told. And she says grandmothers and young people need each other, in both directions, which she then proves by itemising both. #GoGrandma is the first series of the WomenGive Podcast, from the GivingTuesday Africa Hub, part of the Grandmothers of Generosity campaign. Join the movement: https://tinyurl.com/GivingTuesdayAfrica Subscribe to our newsletter: https://givingtuesdayafrica.substack.com/ For more enquiries email us at africa@givingtuesday.org

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  Episode #3

  What My Grandmother Taught Me About Generosity - #GoGrandma with Moyo Aladesuyi and Wendy Ayoola

  Sep 18, 202622 minS1

  "My grandmother taught me that giving is a lifestyle. It's a culture, it's a way of life... it was in how she lived her life, how she lives her life, because she's still alive." That last clause is the whole episode. Moyo Aladesuyi's grandmother is 93 and can still be asked. Wendy Ayoola's died in 2025, and the scale of what she had given away only became clear when the testimonies arrived at her funeral. Moyo and her sister recently sat their grandmother down and asked her how she got her first job and how she met their grandfather, and found out a great deal they did not know. Her argument is that we forget our grandparents were once young, once hustlers, once professionals, once leaders. Wendy's grandmother stocked food she never intended to eat and bought the expensive bags to put it in, because she wanted whatever she gave to feel special. Two young Nigerian professionals, two remarkable grandmothers, and one difference between them that decides everything. #GoGrandma is the first series of the WomenGive Podcast, from the GivingTuesday Africa Hub, part of the Grandmothers of Generosity campaign. Join the movement: https://tinyurl.com/GivingTuesdayAfrica Subscribe to our newsletter: https://givingtuesdayafrica.substack.com/ For more enquiries email us at africa@givingtuesday.org

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  Episode #5

  #GoGrandma with Wendy Ayoola - What My Grandmother Taught Me About Generosity

  Sep 18, 202612 minS1

  Used across Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Afripods. "She was so intentional about her giving that she would purchase fancy polythene and paper bags instead of the regular ones because she wanted whatever she gave to feel special." Wendy Ayoola's grandmother stocked her house with food she never intended to eat, then bought the expensive bags to put it in. Our sector writes whole strategies about dignity. She solved it with packaging. Chief Ezinwa Maria Selin Umelu was the first female title holder in Nkwere, Imo State. She owned property and ran businesses before she married. For decades she gave to drivers, workers, families she established, and people she put through school, and almost none of it was recorded anywhere. Wendy is a business analyst at CPCS in Abuja and a former data analyst at the Rural Electrification Agency. Her working life is spent making contributions legible, building the systems that capture what an intervention did and for whom. The largest giving operation she has ever witnessed existed in no dataset at all. In this episode she talks about packaging as dignity, about resources that are meant to flow through you rather than to you, and about why leadership that is quiet is still leadership. #GoGrandma is the first series of the WomenGive Podcast, from the GivingTuesday Africa Hub, part of the Grandmothers of Generosity campaign. Join the movement: https://tinyurl.com/GivingTuesdayAfrica Subscribe to our newsletter: https://givingtuesdayafrica.substack.com/ For more enquiries email us at africa@givingtuesday.org

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  Episode #4

  #GoGrandma with Moyo Aladesuyi - What My Grandmother Taught Me About Generosity

  Sep 18, 202614 minS1

  "My grandmother taught me that giving is a lifestyle. It's a culture. It's a way of life." Moyo Aladesuyi says none of it came from instruction. Her grandmother never sat her down to explain giving. She just lived, and Moyo watched. Episode three of #GoGrandma is our first youth voice. Moyo is an educator, communicator and children's author, and she is the receiving end of everything this series keeps arguing about. We can talk all we like about grandmothers as civic infrastructure. Moyo is the evidence that it works, walking around, running projects and writing books. Her grandmother is Jumoke Kukoyi, known in the family as Mommy Agba. She is 93, she was a government worker, then a tailor, then a small-scale trader, and she has opened her house to the community every 26 December for as long as Moyo can remember. Then comes the sharpest thing a young person has said to us about older women: we forget that our grandparents were once young, once hustlers, once professionals, once leaders. Old age, Moyo says, has just come to cover up a lot of things. WomenGive is a standalone podcast spun out of UbuntuGiving, dedicated to women as resource holders and movement builders across Africa. #GoGrandma is part of the Grandmothers of Generosity campaign from the GivingTuesday Africa Hub. GivingTuesday is 1 December 2026. Join the movement: https://tinyurl.com/GivingTuesdayAfrica Subscribe to our newsletter: https://givingtuesdayafrica.substack.com/ Email us: africa@givingtuesday.org

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  Episode #2

  #GoGrandma with Chinonso Clark - Shifting the Beneficiary Narrative

  Sep 11, 202627 minS1

  "And I'll tell you, my first funder was a grandmother, right?"We asked Chinonso Clark where she sees grandmothers acting as funders in African giving traditions. She did not reach for a statistic. She told us about the 85-year-old woman who looked at what she was building across several countries and put her own money behind it before any institution did.In episode two of #GoGrandma, the first series of the WomenGive Podcast, we move older women from beneficiary to funder, where they have always belonged.Chinonso is CEO and founder of Lead for Good Africa and founder of The W3 Global Mission. She came to this conversation with a specific irritation, and it turned out to be the most useful thing she brought: the word "beneficiary" does not just describe a relationship, it decides what you go looking for, and therefore what you find.We talk about grandmothers as an institution with experience, network, wisdom and resources, what resourcing grandmother led generosity actually requires, how it could be written into social protection policy, and the first move any funder should make before designing anything.WomenGive is a standalone podcast spun out of UbuntuGiving, dedicated to women as resource holders and movement builders across Africa. #GoGrandma is part of the Grandmothers of Generosity campaign from the GivingTuesday Africa Hub. GivingTuesday is 1 December 2026.Join the movement: https://tinyurl.com/GivingTuesdayAfricaSubscribe to our newsletter: https://givingtuesdayafrica.substack.com/Email us: africa@givingtuesday.org

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