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Mother's Day, celebrated on May 13 in the United States, is a day of honor of celebration for the mothers and women in our lives who have played a positive role in shaping our outlooks. But all around the world, from Congo to Chile, expectant mothers have the same hopes but face different outcomes when giving birth. Here is one story of hope, survival and a celebration of motherhood from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more Donate now Write to mothers in the DRCLydia Sasu grew up tending crops in Ghana, but watched on as her own family often struggled to put food on the table. After graduating from college, she found her true passion: helping other rural women make a difference in their community. Read on to learn more about Lydia and how Women Thrive has worked to ensure that rural women's voices are heard. If you're in the D.C. area, there are two great ways to shop the cause in the coming weeks! A mobile fashion truck will be rolling through Dupont circle and the Corby Collection and Michael Stars are teaming up to host events with proceeds going to Women Thrive Worldwide. Women Thrive board member Suzanne Lerner has her hands full.
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BERLIN – This Century-old factory building that once housed printing presses and food companies, now houses film studios, tech startups and social entrepreneurs, including high school social entrepreneurs.
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Women are disproportionately affected by disasters: 90 percent of those killed in the 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh and 80 percent of those killed in the 2004 tsunami were women and girls. For those who do survive, there are devastating, long-term effects on their sexual and reproductive health. In this new report, the Women’s Refugee Commission looks at activities to improve sexual and reproductive health and better prepare for disasters in Haiti, Uganda and South Sudan.
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Women's Learning Partnership | For Rights, Development, and Peace
Deadline for Applications: May 31, 2012 Women's Learning Partnership (WLP), a partnership of twenty autonomous organizations primarily in Muslim-majority countries, trains and supports women leaders and advocates for a just, peaceful world. WLP creates culturally-specific leadership trainings on democratic participation and partners with local organizations to help women gain the skills they need to fulfill greater leadership roles at the family, community and national level. Over the past decade, WLP's programs and training materials, published in twenty languages, have reached tens of thousands of women in over forty countries, strengthening local organizations to become self-sustaining and to empower women's movements across the globe. Job Description: The Program Associate is based at the WLP liaison office in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Now with a wide research and information database, we give to you personal accounts from the hearts of women and children in the video format. I never heard of fistula before I got one. I thought I was the only woman in the world leaking urine and feces. Now I know there are so many other girls and women with fistula! It can happen to any womanGrameen Bank | Bank for the poor - Home
GB At a Glance Grameen Bank Project was born in the village of Jobra, Bangladesh, in 1976. In 1983 it was transformed into a formal bank under a special law passed for its creation.
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Helping Women Survivors of War Rebuild Their Lives | Women for Women International
Clessence is from Rwanda. She is a twenty-nine-year-old mother of two. Before joining the Women for Women International program, Clessence performed manual labor, cultivating others' gardens so she could have a source of food. Clessence and her husband are divorced, and her husband never provided any support not even for their three-year-old son's medical care.
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Responding to a major speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on U.S. HIV/AIDS policy, FCI president Ann Starrs joined leaders of nearly two dozen advocacy organizations in urging Secretary Clinton to focus more on the links between HIV/AIDS and reproductive and maternal health. In a letter coordinated by FCI, CEOs from across the reproductive health community expressed support for “the Administration’s commitment to reducing vertical transmission of HIV infection, promoting male circumcision, and making treatment central to prevention as essential components of a strategy for curbing the AIDS pandemic.” They expressed concern, however, that Secretary Clinton’s November 8, 2011, speech on creating an AIDS-free generation “included not a single mention of family planning, contraception,CEDPA
Girls’ Education & Youth Development Education is a basic building block in every country’s development. Yet, girls comprise more than half of primary school-age children not in school.Tostan's mission is to empower African communities to bring about sustainable development and positive social transformation based on respect for human rights. Tostan means "breakthrough" in the West African language of Wolof. Since 1991, Tostan has brought its holistic 30-month education program to thousands of communities in ten African countries: Burkina Faso, Djibouti, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Somalia, and Sudan.
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Welcome to the Edna Hospital, Hargeisa, Somaliland The health of the people of Somaliland is among the worst in Africa, with one of the highest Maternal and Infant Mortality rates in the world. Every year, one baby in eight dies in infancy while nearly 4000 Somali women die in childbirth. This tragedy can be attributed in large part to the long civil war which brought about the death or departure of nearly all of the country’s trained health care professionals. read more