What is "sawa"

Sawa may refer to:

• Sawa, Nepal
• The Sawa Defence Training Centre of Eritrea
• Sawa, Lesser Poland Voivodeship (south Poland)

• Devon Sawa, Canadian actor
• Homare Sawa, Japanese football player
• Józef Sawa-Caliński, Cossack, commander in Confederation of Bar
• Masakatsu Sawa, Japanese football player
• Metropolitan Sawa, Patriarch of the Polish Orthodox Church
• Munenori Sawa, Japanese professional wrestler
• SAWA, Japanese techno-pop singer
• Sawa peoples of Cameroon

• Sawa, the main character of the Kite anime series.
• Radio Sawa, an Arabic-language radio station
• Sawa, Syrian internet service provider
• SAWA (Non-profit organization)
• SAWA-Australia, a charity to support Afghanistan's women

Metropolitan Sawa, (Sabbas, secular name Michał Hrycuniak; born 14 April 1938) is the leader of the Polish Orthodox Church (since 1998), the second largest organized religion in Poland. He holds the title of Metropolitan of Warsaw. He is also a professor of theology. Previously, he was a bishop of Białystok and Gdańsk (1981–1998) and Łódź and Poznań (1979–1981).

, stylized as SAWA, is a Japanese techno-pop singer and songwriter who debuted in 2008 on the indies label Cyclops. In 2009, she signed onto Sony Music Entertainment Japan and joined its sublabel, Epic Records. In 2012 she switched to Bellwood Records and released her 6th mini-album, ソプラノレイン (Soprano Rain).

SAWA is a Palestinian, non-profit civil society organization established in 1998 by a group of female volunteers active in women's issues.

This organization works to eliminate all types of violence against women and children, and to promote gender equality in Palestinian society. The vision of SAWA is clearly stated: "We aim to be the lead organization working against the prevailing culture of violence and promoting a culture of peace and security which serves human and community development in order to achieve a democratic society based on the principles of equality and social justice and on human rights."

SAWA works toward the goals of this vision in several basic ways. Intensively trained volunteers and staff work at the national call center hot line, which is free for callers. Counseling and support is given and if needed, medical and legal guidance as well. People in need of SAWA's services can also contact them through email. In addition to the main call center, SAWA has a mobile clinic which allows them to conduct outreach programs in different parts of the community and outlying areas. SAWA also provides training and technical assistance for law enforcement, school personnel and others in the areas of domestic violence and abuse.

A special hotline for children was established by SAWA and became available for use in 2005. It is called the Palestinian Child Protection Helpline and is part of an international network of child help lines called Child Helpline International.

SAWA also publishes and distributes printed material for the purpose of education and awareness of physical, psychological and sexual violence. These efforts toward outreach resulted in the major role SAWA had/has in assisting victims of the siege of Gaza in 2008/09. During the siege of Gaza, an emergency hotline was opened up for traumatized children and parents in Gaza. 200-250 calls per day were coming into SAWA's hotline. SAWA is also very active in combatting human trafficking and the prostitution of Palestinian girls and women. SAWA wrote an extensive report regarding this problem, called, "Trafficking and Forced Prostitution of Palestinian Women and Girls: Forms of Modern Day Slavery."