“Empowering Underprivileged Women”

Christine Bamford is the Founder and CEO of Women's Coin Foundation her passion for inclusivity, education, and equity shines through every conversation, every presentation, and every transaction. She calls herself a “social entrepreneur,” but she held a senior leadership role in Government before moving into this space. It was the grounding in leading change through intense pressure that gives her “gravitas” and the ability to stay true to course despite setbacks and obstacles. Christine reaches out to inspire and empower women through her role as Visiting Professor at Edinburgh Napier University, International speaking, Virtual Mentoring. As the Architect of the Award-winning Stepping Up diversity leadership program, she has personally trained 200 diverse leaders and 60+ Somali Women as business leaders in the last two years. The impact has a ripple effect into wider circles of diaspora, family, children, and communities elsewhere in the world. She is actively working with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees to share how to empower refugees using her “award winning” model.

"Women’s Coin offering is aimed at women investors, but not exclusively. (micro and macros) Investors can Invest in Women’s Coin crypto-currency tokens."

Women’s Coin journey started in a palace in Abu Dhabi. HRH Fatima Bint Mubarak presented Christine with a gold coin in recognition of the work she had been leading in UAE on behalf of the World Health Organization. The dialogue focused on women’s empowerment in a Muslim country with a comment, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a coin for women that could be used for social good” That statement stayed with her. But it was while working in blockchain at her University that the vision became a reality. Christine commented, “Women’s wealth and “power of the purse” is reshaping consumerism and is an underserved market. Women and younger generations are being selective on how they invest and purchase. Women’s Coin seeks to harness the demand for ethical purchasing and transparency through utilization of blockchain.”

Women’s Coin has two major funding streams

• Women’s Coin crypto-currency tokens for social good – trading on Ethereum blockchain platform ERC20. Investment in token generating profits to support humanitarian causes

• Women’s Coin Community Education Foundation – Award-winning bespoke Diversity leadership, Women’s Leadership, and Mentoring Program delivered through e-learning platform and tailored to meet client’s needs

Women’s Coin offering is aimed at women investors, but not exclusively. (micro and macros) Investors can Invest in Women’s Coin crypto-currency tokens. Christine says, “we are democratizing investment and charitable giving - we are pitching directly to individuals to support humanitarian causes. Blockchain and smart contracts deliver transparency of funding directly to the point in need – without a third-party intermediary. That means the money raised is what the end-user receives without salami-slicing funding cuts for numerous parties resulting in very little reaching the endpoint.”

As an example, Rosie Ochola, a Women’s Coin volunteer, traveled back to her birth village in Kenya to teach girls orphaned through aids how to make jewelry to sell and be self-sufficient. Rosie immediately set out to teach the girls to make necklaces, earrings, bracelets using local stone and material. She taught them how to sell these items, and the results included the purchase of a water tank (to reduce the 5 hours a day trip to the water hole) and a cow to till the land. With Rosie’s training, the girls were able to transform themselves and their living conditions. Rosie provided the blueprint for the mobile business empowerment training for women and girls, which will be carried on for days to come.

The Women’s Coin cryptocurrency token will soon be available for pre-sale investment in 2021, along with Zumo crypto/fiat wallet and payment card. The global launch will be in Abu Dhabi and UK Launch in Edinburgh in 2021. Blockchain charitable giving proof of concept trial will be delivered through a partnership consortium. By the end of 2021, the Women’s Coin Step-Up Education Foundation will offer free e-education and access to global mentoring network for those living in challenging environments delivering the key outcome against the United Nations Strategic Development Goal (outlined in Women’s Coin whitepaper). The aim is to expand international expansion into other countries on a planned expansion program in Europe, Africa, Asia, and America – client engagement from 2021. Anyone wishing to join the Women’s Coin network can email contactus@womenscoin.com IE