Help Us Create a World without Violence

In the past few months, we have seen two mass abductions of Nigerian girls by rebel group Boko Haram, a horrid hate crime driven by Elliot Rodger’s feelings of entitlement to female companionship, and three young women raped and hanged in India and Pakistan.

Clearly, gender-based violence (GBV) is not the problem of one nation but rather an issue that the entire globe must face together.  Thanks to your donations, Women Thrive Worldwide is able to continue our work to ensure that GBV becomes a problem of the past.

We believe that no country will reach its optimum economic or social potential as long as its women and girls are living in constant fear of physical harm and sexual assault.

In order to eradicate this fear, with your help, we have been engaging Congress to support the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women as well as the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA).  However, we’ve come to realize that these efforts, although important, are not enough.

It is imperative to make the world aware of the loss it experiences when half of its population, women and girls, is neglected its basic human rights.

Ritu Sharma, president of Women Thrive, has witnessed firsthand the need to include women in the process of overcoming global poverty and strife.  In her newly released book, Teach a Woman to Fish, Sharma chronicles her experiences living side-by-side women throughout the world in various regions and cultures.  Although each woman and girl Ritu meets throughout her book is uniquely powerful and beautiful, her dogmatic want for a better life and her willingness to sacrifice to obtain it remain consistent.

Pairing a compassionate depiction of the injustices, including GBV, that rob women of their basic rights with a hopeful vision of possible reform, Sharma artfully invites the reader into the fight for female liberation.

We would love for you to join us in this fight by picking up Teach a Woman to Fish. This read will not only make you acutely aware of the daily travesties that global women face but also the steps that you can take in ending such oppressive forces.

Thank you for your continued support to Women Thrive.  Together, we will make known that men and women must work in unison to change the world.