For millions of girls around the world, going to school is anything but guaranteed. These two projects are making education a reality for hundreds of them.
World Food Program USA has been selected as a Shorty Social Good Award Finalist for its Women Are Hungrier campaign in the Best Multi-Platform Campaign category.
The Fund has awarded two organizations – World Assistance for Cambodia and Kakenya’s Dream – with grants to expand their programs and make an even greater impact on the lives of the women and girls they serve.
Armed conflict forced Leticia and her family to flee Colombia 20 years ago. Now, the crisis in Venezuela is forcing her to return to her country empty-handed. This is her story.
With an investment of $72 million, the Government is set to reach 100,000 women with livelihood training, behavior change education and food assistance.
Around 70% of Rwandans work in the agricultural sector, yet they lose vast amounts of their harvest before it ever reaches their plates or markets.
The story of a wife, mother, student and a professional driver with World Food Programme in Nigeria.
“While one segment of society is dreaming of life on Mars, over 113 million others are facing acute hunger and dreaming of food…Good nutrition is the bed-rock of sustainable development, peace and security.”
The impacts of conflicts, natural disasters and crop failures are not ‘gender neutral’. Gender considerations are critical to humanitarian action as crises impact the lives of women and men, girls and boys in different ways.
We need “a systemwide transformation” in the way we live, work, govern and grow our food. It’s no small task.
