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Young Women's Christian Association | |
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| Founded | 1855 |
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| Founder | Mary Jane Kinnaird Emma Robarts |
| Founded at | London, United Kingdom |
| Headquarters | Geneva, Switzerland |
Region | Worldwide |
| Website | www |
The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) is a nonprofit organization with a focus on empowerment, leadership, and rights of women, young women, and girls in more than 100 countries.
The World office is currently based in Geneva, Switzerland, and the nonprofit is headquartered in Washington, DC.
The YWCA is independent of the YMCA, but a few local and national YMCA and YWCA associations have merged into YM/YWCAs or YMCA-YWCAs and belong to both organizations, while providing the programs from each (an example being Sweden, which did so in 1966).