Help Women Feed the World

With International Women’s Day just passed and the spring season already underway, Women Thrive would like to provide a quick review of how, with your support, we have made advances for women and girls together: 

• Earlier this month, at the UN General Assembly’s 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, Women Thrive hosted an event with FHI 360 and Johnson & Johnson, focused on how integrated delivery of development solutions can accelerate gender equality and women’s empowerment. The event included presentations from our grassroots partners, from Nepal and Zimbabwe, followed by a panel discussion about the challenges and benefits of adopting integrated approaches to the empowerment of women and girls.

• In February, Women Thrive team members travelled to Rwanda where we worked with our global partners to make sure their voices were heard loud and clear by government ministries at the Sub-Saharan Africa Ministerial Conference on Education Post-2015. Together, we set common priorities on equitable education, and then shard these messages with other participants, and incorporated them in the drafting of the outcome document.

• As part of the international celebration of women, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and UN Women jointly hosted the International Women’s Day Forum earlier this month. Over 500 leaders in the worldwide effort to empower women, including our own Women Thrive leaders, joined in New York to share and evaluate effective methods for continuing the increase of economic ability and the decrease of the achievement barriers for women and girls across the world.

With your support, Women Thrive is able to achieve continue working towards women’s empowerment worldwide. We cannot thank you enough for being a committed donor. Please let us know if we can further engage with you on any of our issues.

With Gratitude,

Mina Alemzadeh