Global Impact Women And Girls Fund: Help Change Lives Around The World
Roughly one billion people in the world live in extreme poverty; the majority of them are women. Women control less than 10 percent of the world’s assets while performing two-thirds of all labor to produce more than half of the world’s food.
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The problem is even worse for young girls. In some countries, long-standing cultural, and often religious, practices devalue and marginalize female children, which results in lack of access to education, marginalization, forced marriage, sexual exploitation and violence.
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Without access to clean drinking water, sanitation, medical care, equal rights, education and decent employment, poverty continues to intensify. When mothers lack the means to thrive, their children suffer, as well.
Global Impact Women And Girls Fund
To address the aforementioned issues and increase the resources available to organizations helping women and girls in the developing world, Global Impact has partnered with CARE, World Vision, Plan and ICRW to raise funds for programs impacting women and girls. This initiative is the Global Impact Women & Girls fund. With this new partnership, organizations worldwide are uniting to provide resources and frontline delivery of services on a global scale, including:
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- Access to education
- Job skills training
- Prenatal and early childhood care
- Microlending opportunities
- Safe drinking water
- Protection from violence and rehabilitation for those who have been victimized
- Vaccinations and lifesaving drugs
- School enrollment and attendance programs
Global Impact Women And Girls Fund
Together we can help change the world by investing in women and girls. We can ensure that they are protected, respected, educated and empowered to reach their fullest potential.
Global Impact Women And Girls Fund
Global Impact Women And Girls Fund
Did You Know:
• Women and girls are often the faces of poverty, yet they are essential to overcoming it.
• An estimated sixty percent of women have been physically or sexually abused.
• Women produce half of the world’s food, but own less than one percent of the world’s property.
•Each year, about 300,000 women suffer a preventable death during pregnancy and childbirth.
•Two-thirds of the children denied primary education are girls.
•Women and girls make up ninety-eight percent of trafficking victims.
•Women make up 65 percent of the nearly 1 billion people who cannot read or write.
•99% of all maternal deaths occur in development countries
•1 billion women will be victims of violence in their lifetime.
•1 in 9 girls is forced into marriage before her 15th birthday.
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By supporting this initiative, you will join with millions of people working towards the same social cause. Â Your contributions go directly to supporting real and meaningful work to improve lives around the globe. The Global Impact Women & Girls fund is the solution to helping every woman and girl everywhere lift herself out of poverty and abuse, altering the condition of her family, her community and, ultimately, the world.
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Disclaimer: This post is a part of a sponsored awareness program that seeks to help women and girls everywhere live healthy lives wherein they are protected, respected, educated and empowered to reach their potential. Visit www.togetherforwomen.org.
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I am a proud member of the Global Team of 200, a highly specialized group of members of Mom Bloggers for Social Good that concentrates on issues involving women and girls, children, world hunger and maternal health.
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