Create a Safer World – Fight Terrorism Through Giving

The Safer World Fund (formerly the philanthropic arm of Our Voices Together) began as a response of family and friends of loved ones killed in the terrorist acts of 9/11. It is now engaging many people who recognize how individuals can help fight terrorism. By supporting basic education, vocational training, and health care, these projects offer opportunities to impoverished people in the poorest areas of the world, especially girls and women.

Give today to the Safer World Fund, or to one of the individual projects supported by the Fund.

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Afghanistan  Human Rights   Project of the Month ClubProject of the Month Club   Safer World Matching FundsSafer World Matching Funds
The Safer World Fund was created by three people who lost loved ones during the 9/11 terrorist acts in 2001. Rather than respond to the tragedy with anger, the founders chose to honor 9/11 victims by helping the people of Afghanistan. The Fund promotes education, health care and economic opportunity to counter the sway of extremists and terrorist tactics. See www.globalgiving.org/saferworld for supported projects. project reportread updates from the field
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Fast-Tracking Education for Afghan Women and Girls
Fast-Tracking Education for Afghan Women and Girls
Afghanistan  Women and Girls   Safer World Matching FundsSafer World Matching Funds
Provide literacy and fast-track education to thousands of women and girls who were deprived of learning by the Taliban and are now eager to become literate and learn skills at an accelerated pace project reportread updates from the field
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Send 30 girls in Pakistan to school
Send 30 girls in Pakistan to school
Pakistan  Women and Girls   Safer World Matching FundsSafer World Matching Funds
This project supports secondary education for 30 girls in two remote villages in Pakistan. Funds provide transportation, two sets of uniforms per girl, books, and other school supplies. project reportread updates from the field
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Help Educate 28,000+ Girls in Northern Afghanistan
Help Educate 28,000+ Girls in Northern Afghanistan
Afghanistan  Women and Girls   Safer World Matching FundsSafer World Matching Funds
Help us support education for 28,000+ girls at 12 schools in Balkh Province, Northern Afghanistan. Since 2003, we have worked to build, repair and supply these schools, train teachers and improve the curriculum. High priority needs for 2013 include computer literacy training, computer equipment, desks, literacy programs, salaries for 2 Afghan women who are Ayni's liaisons with schools, teacher education and maintenance of roofs, drainage systems and security. project reportread updates from the field
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Vocational Training for 1,000 Women in Pakistan
Vocational Training for 1,000 Women in Pakistan
Pakistan  Women and Girls   Safer World Matching FundsSafer World Matching Funds
MDF provides young women and mothers with training to learn entrepreneurial skill. specific trades, and access to markets to launch successful businesses, send their children to school, and lift their families out of poverty. project reportread updates from the field
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Educate Girls and Boys in Rural Afghanistan
Educate Girls and Boys in Rural Afghanistan
Afghanistan  Education   Safer World Matching FundsSafer World Matching Funds
Thanks to your generosity we met our initial project goal but there is more to do: additional desks, teacher and school liaison transportation to this rural site. The impact of your dollars is immediate. In September, students at this village school were able to experience 4 new classrooms. A year ago these students sat on the floor and now they have desks , chalkboards and class room additions. As new children enter the school, we need to replenish our desk supply. Our teachers need transport project reportread updates from the field
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Shelters for Women in Iraq and Afghanistan
Shelters for Women in Iraq and Afghanistan
Afghanistan  Women and Girls   Safer World Matching FundsSafer World Matching Funds
In Iraq and Afghanistan, MADRE is providing women threatened by violence with the support necessary to escape to safety and begin rebuilding their lives. With allies and an escape route, survivors of gender-based violence move from seeing themselves as victims of abuse to knowing that they can create positive change. This project strengthens women’s capacity to demand their rights to political participation and freedom from all forms of violence. project reportread updates from the field
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Train Afghan Women to Champion Reproductive Health
Train Afghan Women to Champion Reproductive Health
Afghanistan  Women and Girls   Safer World Matching FundsSafer World Matching Funds
Building on a successful prior project, Marie Stopes International Afghanistan plans to train the wives of 60 local religious leaders (Mullahs) to dispense information and counseling about family planning and reproductive health among women in their community. By sharing information in a culturally and religiously appropriate context and providing referrals to local clinics, these women will work to improve access to and use of life-saving reproductive health and family planning services. project reportread updates from the field
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Educate a Midwife - Save Women in Afghanistan
Educate a Midwife - Save Women in Afghanistan
Afghanistan  Health   Safer World Matching FundsSafer World Matching Funds
A woman should not die while giving life. Every minute a woman dies in pregnancy and childbirth. Jhpiego knows how to keep these women alive. Jhpiego works to bring care to women where they live. project reportread updates from the field
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Establish and Support Afghanistan Model Schools
Establish and Support Afghanistan Model Schools
Afghanistan  Education   Safer World Matching FundsSafer World Matching Funds
Our model schools provide highly-qualified teachers, innovative learning programs, a safe and secure learning environment where children can flourish, and strong local community investment. project reportread updates from the field
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Starting September 11, 2011, donations to the Safer World Fund and its beneficiaries will be matched at 50%.  See full terms here.

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