Partners

The Women Entrepreneurship Development Trust Fund (WEDTF) empowers women in Zanzibar, Tanzania through microcredit and business training, enabling them to create job opportunities for themselves, their families and communities.     The challenges WEDTF is addressing:   Poverty remains the biggest development challenge facing Tanzania, one of the world’s 10 poorest countries, where around 68% of the population lives with less than $1.25 per day. Receiving no proper education and often forced to marry at a very early age, women and girls are particularly disadvantaged. […]

The Village Net (TVN) supports impoverished girls and women in rural Ghana, through life-changing education, health and microfinance opportunities, enabling the girls and women to acquire skills and qualifications and establish sustainable livelihoods for themselves and their families.       The challenge(s) that The Village Net Ghana is addressing:   Although Ghana has made significant progress in elevating the status of girls and women throughout the country in past years, girls and women from very poor communities continue to miss out on vital education, […]

The Birthing Project improves the birth outcomes and overall health of women of color and their children by providing them with critical support, medical supplies, and education.     The challenge(s) the Birthing Project is addressing:   Each year, hundreds of thousands of women die during pregnancy or childbirth because of pregnancy- and delivery-related complications. 90% of these deaths are preventable. In the US, African-American women are nearly 4 times more likely to die of pregnancy-related complications than white women.   The Birthing Project – the only […]

The Village Net (TVN) empowers impoverished, marginalized girls and women in rural Kenya through microfinance, education, and health initiatives that help them to break out of poverty and respond positively to the pressing needs of their families and communities.     The challenge(s) that The Village Net Kenya is addressing:   In Kenya, girls and women constitute an overwhelming 70% of the almost 20 million people living in extreme poverty (or earning under $1.25/day). Poor sanitation and malnutrition, combined with a chronic shortage of economic and educational […]

The Alpha Ujuvi Collective acts to put an end to rampant sexual violence in DR Congo by supporting and empowering female survivors through education, vocational training, medical and legal aid, and awareness-raising activities.     The challenge(s) that the Alpha Ujuvi Collective is addressing:   Over the past decade and a half, girls and women have been systematically raped and sexually assaulted in DR Congo. Today, sexual violence continues to be used on a massive scale as a weapon of war by soldiers, ethnic militias […]

Hope Ofiriha’s programs in remote Magwi County, South Sudan transform the lives of the area’s poorest girls and women through life-saving healthcare, education, and microcredit opportunities.    The challenge(s) that Hope Ofiriha is addressing:   Many of the girls and women in Magwi County, South Sudan are refugees or have been displaced by half a century of civil war in the region. Now, as conflict with Sudan over oil-rich border regions continues and an ongoing influx of refugees from the North strains South Sudan’s resources, […]