Kobane has its Women's Academy. On Sunday, with an emotional ceremony the new building has been opened at the presence of some of those who contributed to the reformation of the building.

The Academy is named and dedicated to the first martyr from Kobane, who fell in Iraqi Kurdistan, Martyr Şilan.

The Academy has been financed by the Italian Valdese church, Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Durango city council and the association Ponte Donna, as project's leading association.

The President of Ponte Donna Carla Centioni was in Kobane attending the opening, together with Patrizia Fiocchetto, journalist and writer.

The idea of the Academy had been first discussed in 2015, little after the liberation of Kobane, after a heroic resistance of the YPG and YPJ, the Kurdish People’s and Women's Defense Units.

The Academy wants to be a space for women, where women can meet to share ideas, experiences, realities also from other countries.

The experience of women in Rojava is crucial for all women and their path to liberation has been and is inspiring for thousands of women around the world.