Restoring Our Voices: Empowering Women Leaders through Storytelling is a pioneering initiative by EnviroX that creates safe, inclusive, and feminist dialogue spaces for women and girls to express their lived realities — particularly those impacted by environmental harm, artistic erasure, or social injustice.

Running between November 2023 and June 2024, the program hosted Six storytelling circles in various community and creative settings, with a final international session held in Tirana, Albania in June 2024. Each session focused on empowering women through:

• Personal storytelling in action
• Shared reflection on environmental and cultural exclusion
• Co-creating feminist, community-rooted visions for change

The goal was to build collective agency and emotional resilience, spotlight marginalized perspectives, and strengthen women’s roles as leaders in both public discourse and local action. The sessions also emphasized the importance of creating intersectional policy spaces where storytelling is seen not just as therapy but as strategy.

By engaging civil society actors across sectors from environmental advocates to artists and educators the program built a cross-cutting dialogue space where healing, representation, and empowerment intersected.

Restoring Our Voices serves as both a resistance to silence and a rehearsal for justice proving that when women reclaim their stories, they reshape the systems around them.