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We’re helping girls and boys enjoy equal opportunities

Girls deserve equal opportunities

We help girls develop knowledge, skills, confidence and leadership skills through girls’ clubs, child and youth groups and children’s networks
We provide training and awareness campaigns on human rights, gender equality and where to go for help
We encourage girls and women to participate in decision-making at our program level and in community and government meetings, councils and forums

We promote women and girls in leadership roles, boost income-generating activities for women and engage boys and men as partners for change
We embed gender equality into all we do and adopt policies and practices supporting equal rights and opportunities

Africa

Asia

AMERICAS

Youth employability: closing the gender gap in youth employment in Nicaragua… Read more
Strengthening protection, especially among women and girls, during emergencies… Read more
Women’s groups spark social and personal empowerment… Read more

In the 2020/2021 fiscal year, we celebrated the following achievements...

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adults and children joined in reducing gender-discriminatory norms and practices

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young women and mothers were supported in leadership and to ensure their voices are heard in decisions affecting their lives

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of the 17 community organizations supported by our programs in Paraguay were led by women

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women and girls formed 170 savings-and-loans groups in 110 communes in Burkina Faso