For the past two years, our team has been listening, testing, and iterating toward a simple idea with a profound impact: a vibrant, powerful, engaged community is the foundation for survivors’ healing journeys. As CTO of Our Wave, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside survivors, clinicians, designers, engineers, and advocates to shape that vision into reality. Today, I’m proud to share that Our Wave Community 2.0 is live at community.ourwave.org.
Why this release, and why now? Because building safe digital spaces for survivors of sexual harm, domestic violence, and child abuse requires more than a content library or a forum. It asks for a place where education, personalized resources, and human connection come together—securely, respectfully, and at each survivor’s pace. Our Wave 2.0 is a significant step toward that all‑encompassing experience.
When the Trump administration issued its January 20 executive order announcing that it was freezing all U.S. foreign development assistance—funding that typically accounts for about a third of Save the Children’s annual global program budget—our senior team was already gathered for a previously planned in-person retreat. Together, we quickly moved through every stage of grief.
Aida, a farmer with myAgro in Senegal, picking up her farming inputs in Keur Samba.
For smallholder farmers in West Africa, the global climate crisis is having an outsized impact. Rains that they rely on have become more unpredictable and temperatures are rising 1.5 times faster than anywhere else in the world. As the region’s population continues to rise, it is imperative that smallholder farmers, who produce an estimated 30% of the world’s food, are supported to respond to rapidly changing climate conditions.
