Women and Girls Funded Projects

Women and Girls

Funded $15,000 (of $15,000 requested)

Educating and enabling families to keep their young daughters at home, having the girls attend school, while affording the families' sustainable ways for the successful eradication of this practice.

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Build Skills & Income by Training Guatemalan Women

Guatemala,

Women and Girls ,

Buy Gifts for Good

Funded $5,007 (of $14,585 requested)

Train 35 Guatemalan women in foot loom weaving to make products in high demand on the international market. Training will offer new employable skills and increase income for their families.

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Empower AIDS Widows - Save a Community

Women and Girls

Funded $9,500 (of $9,500 requested)

A farming co-op of AIDS widows and orphans in rural Uganda is working toward economic sustainability for 100 women or child-headed families, plus local orphans and disabled people, (1600 people).

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Training in HIV/AIDS for 40 girls in Kilifi

Kenya,

Women and Girls

Funded $3,300 (of $3,300 requested)

The project provides HIV/AIDS training for 40 girls who will reach out with this new information to 3,000 girls in rural Kenya

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BRAC Safe Spaces & Loans for Teenage Ugandan Girls

Women and Girls

Funded $18,141 (of $90,000 requested)

BRAC's ELA project will provide 500 teenage girls in Uganda with 20 safe spaces, informal education and micro loans. This will help them lead confident, self-reliant and dignified lives

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Sports to Promote Women's Rights in Rwanda

Rwanda,

Women and Girls

Funded $28,100 (of $28,100 requested)

This Project aims to use sport to empower Rwandan women and girls to create a strong forum of advocacy on women’s rights, HIV/AIDS prevention & management and issues of unity and reconciliation.

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Safe Houses for Iraqi Women

Iraq,

Women and Girls

Funded $20,000 (of $20,000 requested)

Safe Houses for Iraqi Women identifies and shelters Iraqi women and girls who are under threat of “honor killings” or other violence, and offers them safety, counseling and human rights training.

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Women’s Football for Unity, Rwanda

Rwanda,

Women and Girls

Funded $105,000 (of $105,000 requested)

The project will make girls' football strong in Kigali City and Rwanda. The project will demonstrate the positive impact of gender in sport for social change.

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Rescuing Young Girls From Bonded Labor in Nepal

Women and Girls

Funded $2,500 (of $2,500 requested)

Educating and enabling families to keep their young daughters at home, having the girls attend school, while affording the families' sustainable ways for the successful eradication of this practice.

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Empower Indian Women With Legal Aid and Training

Women and Girls

Funded $4,000 (of $4,000 requested)

Empowering village women with legal awareness training will make them better able to address issues of dowry, sexual harassment and domestic violence.

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Rescuing Young Brides in Kenya

Kenya,

Women and Girls

Funded $2,500 (of $2,500 requested)

The Bride Rescue Project rescues young girls from harmful cultural practices and provides them with education and shelter at the AIC Girls Primary School.

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Rescuing Young Girls from Bonded Labor in Nepal

Women and Girls

Funded $2,500 (of $2,500 requested)

Educating and enabling families to keep their young daughters at home, having the girls attend school, while affording the families' sustainable ways for the successful eradication of this practice.

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Build a Girls' Empowerment Village in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe,

Women and Girls

Funded $8,517 (of $8,517 requested)

The Empowerment Village will serve as a shelter, counseling center and community clubhouse where girls combating sexual and emotional abuse can regain their self-esteem and hope for the future.

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Housing & Education for AIDS orphaned girls

Women and Girls

Funded $15,473 (of $15,473 requested)

To provide education to orphaned & vulnerable children, providing them with the basic skills to become self-sufficient and escape child labor, prostitution, and death by poverty and AIDS.

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Practical Protection for Women in Darfur, Sudan

Sudan,

Women and Girls

Funded $27,170 (of $27,170 requested)

This program provides fuel-efficient stoves to Darfurian women, lowering the risk of sexual and gender-based violence by reducing dependence on high-risk excursions for firewood.

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Women's Education Fund in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone,

Women and Girls

Funded $11,000 (of $11,000 requested)

To supplement costs for secondary and post-secondary education for women in Sierra Leone to prepare them for gainful employment and constructive participation in the nation's development

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Rescuing Young Girls From Bonded Labor in Nepal

Women and Girls

Funded $2,500 (of $2,500 requested)

Educating and enabling families to keep their young daughters at home, send the girls to school, and have a sustainable way of living in order to eradicate this practice.

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Sewing cooperative for isolated Muslim women

Women and Girls

Funded $1,650 (of $1,650 requested)

Muslim women between 16 and 22, living in the Indian city of Hyderabad, form a sewing cooperative and use their tailoring and embroidery skills to leverage their capacity to earn money.

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Rescuing Young Girls from Bonded Labor in Nepal

Women and Girls

Funded $25,000 (of $25,000 requested)

Educating and enabling families to keep their young daughters at home, having the girls attend school, while affording the families' sustainable ways for the successful eradication of this practice.

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Vocational Center for Freed Slave Girls in Ghana

Women and Girls

Funded $10,000 (of $10,000 requested)

Girls, freed from slavery, are gaining valuable skills by attending a vocational center that was built with help from GlobalGiving donors. The center now needs a safe water supply and a modern oven.

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Empower women to end HIV/AIDS stigma, South Africa

South Africa,

Women and Girls

Funded $15,505 (of $15,505 requested)

Stigma is a serious stumbling block in the fight against AIDS. Positive Women’s Network helps women, who are often ignored or blamed for the infection, to support themselves and their families.

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Educating and Empowering Women in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone,

Women and Girls

Funded $11,000 (of $11,000 requested)

To supplement costs for secondary and post-secondary education for women in Sierra Leone to prepare them for gainful employment and constructive participation in the nation's development

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Educating and Empower Women in Liberia

Liberia,

Women and Girls

Funded $11,000 (of $11,000 requested)

To supplement costs for secondary and post-secondary education for girls and women in Liberia to prepare them for gainful employment and constructive participation in the nation's development

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Women's Education in Liberia

Liberia,

Women and Girls

Funded $10,160 (of $11,000 requested)

To supplement costs for secondary and post-secondary education for girls and women in Liberia to prepare them for gainful employment and constructive participation in the nation's development

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Giving Women a Voice in Guinea

Guinea,

Women and Girls

Funded $8,432 (of $12,000 requested)

The project aims to increase women's leadership in addressing and managing local conflicts through non-violence. It will help women voice their peace messages through media and training.

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Skills Training for 250 Tsunami-Affected Women

Women and Girls

Funded $49,510 (of $86,210 requested)

The Centre for Women's Development and Rehabilitation will empower 250 tsunami-affected women by creating livelihood opportunities through vocational skills training and psychosocial counseling.

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Vikasini: educating girls of urban Indian slum

Women and Girls

Funded $3,100 (of $8,800 requested)

In a slum where girls are historically uneducated and relegated to a life of hard labor, the new Vikasini girls' school is shaping bright futures and must grow to meet overwhelming enrollment

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Rural Indian women organize violence prevention

Women and Girls

Funded $2,010 (of $6,600 requested)

To combat rape of girls as young as seven and increasing violence toward women in the rural village of Medak (Andrah Pradesh), local women will lobby government officials for better protection.

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Ghana: Accused "Witches" Upgrade Vocational Tools

Women accused of being witches are permanently banned from village life. Until this practice can be addressed, processing shea butter and "dawa-dawa" spice produces just enough income for survival.

Women and Girls

Funded $2,077 (of $8,000 requested)

Create Opportunities for Rural Women to Own Land

South Africa,

Women and Girls

Funded $2,120 (of $8,500 requested)

Rural Women’s Movement teaches women their rights to own land and access resources in South Africa. RWM trains women to acquire land, learn sustainable farming and paves the way to self-sufficiency.

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India: Financial support for urban girl's school

The residential shelter provides women and girls, from an isolated region of Central America, with assistance and safety as they escape violence and sexual abuse.

Women and Girls

Funded $2,146 (of $8,800 requested)

In a slum where girls are historically uneducated and relegated to a life of hard labor, the new Vikasini girls' school is shaping bright futures and must grow to meet overwhelming enrollment

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Girls' Empowerment Village in Hwange, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe,

Women and Girls

Funded $2,042 (of $10,559 requested)

The Empowerment Village will serve as a shelter, counseling center and community clubhouse where girls combating sexual and emotional abuse can regain their self-esteem and hope for the future.

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Resident shelter for victims of abuse in Waslala

Nicaragua,

Women and Girls

Funded $1,804 (of $10,285 requested)

Empower Women to Fight HIV and End FGM in Kenya

Kenya,

Women and Girls

Funded $1,005 (of $7,500 requested)

Breaking the Silence trains Indigenous Samburu women and girls to understand and prevent HIV/AIDS and end the harmful practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), also called "female circumcision".

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Empower 2,000 women in the Rural Himalayas

Women and Girls

Funded $3,951 (of $30,000 requested)

This project integrates rural technology that is easy to construct, socially acceptable, economically viable and environmentally friendly to strengthen rural livelihoods and reduce women’s drudgery.

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Ghana: Vocational center for freed girl slaves

Girls and women, liberated from enforced slavery, are learning to function in mainstream society by attending a rehabilitation program. A center is needed to house and expand their activities.

Women and Girls

Funded $2,224 (of $22,000 requested)

Violence prevention for women in rural India

To combat rape of girls as young as seven and increasing violence toward women in the rural village of Medak (Andrah Pradesh), local women will lobby government officials for better protection.

Women and Girls

Funded $456 (of $6,600 requested)

Ghana: Nut processing for accused "witches"

In parts of Ghana, women accused of being witches are permanently banned from village life. Until this practice can be addressed, processing shea produces just enough income for survival.

Women and Girls

Funded $676 (of $11,000 requested)

Labor Rights for Women in Mexican Factories

Women and Girls

Funded $1,220 (of $20,000 requested)

Female laborers on the Mexican border, whose only job opportunity is in the factory industry, will learn about their labor and reproductive rights in order to improve their working conditions.

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Indigenous women's business training in Mexico

Teaching Mexico's indigenous women artisans to improve the production and distribution of their earth-friendly crafts will ensure the long-term sustainability of their businesses.

Women and Girls

Funded $650 (of $11,000 requested)

Strengthening Women's Status and Health in Nepal

To assist 11,500 marginalized, rural women organize self-help groups, increase their social and economic status, reduce gender restrictions, escape money lenders, improve their health and education

Women and Girls

Funded $2,440 (of $55,000 requested)

Rescue Honduran Mothers From Domestic Violence

Honduras,

Women and Girls

Funded $1,973 (of $49,738 requested)

This project will expand Honduras's only shelter for women and children at risk of violence. It provides them with legal, health and emotional support, as well as seed funds to start businesses.

Labour Justice for Maquila Workers in La Laguna

Women and Girls

Funded $310 (of $10,820 requested)

This project will provide 40 women with knowledge of the labor rights so they can promote the development of strategies to defend them and thus decrease related violations.

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Indigenous women's business training in Mexico

Teaching Mexico's indigenous women artisans to improve the production and distribution of their crafts will ensure the long-term sustainability of their businesses.

Women and Girls

Funded $240 (of $11,000 requested)

Sudan: Unify and Empower Women in Crisis

Sudan,

Women and Girls

Funded $873 (of $42,000 requested)

Meeting the immediate needs of women and girls who are struggling to stay alive in refugee camps in Darfur, and organizing women farmers in Elgedarif to prevent further resource conflict in Sudan.

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Improve Women's Livelihoods in Rinjani, Indonesia

Indonesia,

Women and Girls

Funded $222 (of $12,000 requested)

Empowering women-headed households in communities through training in better land use practices, provision of basic health care services, and sustainable management of forest resources.

Health education for rural Oaxacan women

Critical health education and organizing strategies will support the efforts of indigenous women in the Sierra Mixteca, whose basic human and reproductive rights are systematically violated.

Women and Girls

Funded $269 (of $18,700 requested)

India: Dalit Women and girls receive health edu.

Women and Girls

Funded $616 (of $44,550 requested)

Nirnaya gives women and girls of India's Dalit or 'untouchable' class control over their health though workshops on nutrition and reproductive health, while reviving traditional herbal remedies.

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To avoid teen age marriages among Tribal in India

SDI empowers women and girl children through training to improve their rights, break economic and social barriers, raise women's standing in society, enhance equity & prevent vulnerability & disease.

Women and Girls ,

Project Challenge 2008 participant.

Funded $100 (of $8,250 requested)

TWA proposes to conduct training camps that will focus on safe reproductive health care practices.

Livelihood Skills to Empower 800 Women in Cameroon

Cameroon,

Women and Girls ,

Project Challenge 2008 participant.

Funded $550 (of $49,808 requested)

Health classes for Dalit women and girls in India

Women and Girls

Funded $434 (of $44,550 requested)

Nirnaya gives women and girls of India's Dalit or 'untouchable' class control over their health though workshops on nutrition and reproductive health, while reviving traditional herbal remedies.

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Storage for Ghanaian women's palm oil surplus

Storage space for a Ghanaian women's palm oil processing group would prevent their surplus from going rancid, enabling them to obtain premium prices rather than being forced to sell it off quickly.

Women and Girls

Funded $96 (of $11,000 requested)

Improving Women's Livelihoods in Rinjani,Indonesia

Indonesia,

Women and Girls

Funded $100 (of $12,000 requested)

Empowering women-headed households in communities through training in better land use practices, provision of basic health care services, and sustainable management of forest resources.

Nepal: Providing economic autonomy to rural women

Rural women in Nepal have limited access to education or training. Groups of women will organize through this program with guidance for self-sustaining income-generating activities.

Women and Girls

Funded $422 (of $83,600 requested)

Guatemala: Pigs for Women Farmers

Guatemala,

Women and Girls

Funded $250 (of $52,950 requested)

Pig farming will provide Indigenous Ixil women in El Quiché the economic resources and technical skills to create sustainable livelihoods for themselves and their families.

Addressing Uterine Prolapse in Rural Nepal

MIREST Nepal project combines preventive & curative measures to combat the humanitarian crisis caused by Uterine Prolapse, a life-long painful ailment found massively in poor & rural women of Nepal.

Women and Girls ,

Project Challenge 2008 participant.

Funded $220 (of $50,000 requested)

MIFUMI-Ensuring women's rights in Uganda

MIFUMI will create 40 civil sports clubs in the district to form a mixed football team of girls and boys. Young people play together and promote gender equity, equality & respect.

Women and Girls

Funded $3,170 (of $805,000 requested)

Protecting 510 children from traffickers in Bihar

Flood of unparalleled magnitude in Bihar has affected 5 million people, many children orphaned and separated, resulting in multiple risks and becoming an easy prey to the traffickers.

Women and Girls ,

Project Challenge 2008 participant.

Funded $185 (of $49,227 requested)

Capacity building for women NGOs in India