Spend International Women’s Day Thriving


Mar 6th, 2009 7:08 PM EST
By Margaret McDonnell

FAR Toolkit Cover PageCheck out this post to learn how ONE’s partner Women Thrive Worldwide is honoring International Women’s Day (March 8th)

-Margaret McDonnell, NGO Partnerships

In honor of International Women’s Day, Women Thrive Worldwide is pleased to release its toolkit on Foreign Aid Reform!

Investing in women and girls is one of the most efficient uses of our foreign assistance dollars and best ways to make the world more peaceful and prosperous. Decades of research and experience prove that women are more likely to invest their income in food, clean water, education, and health care for their children, creating a positive cycle of change that lifts entire families, communities and nations out of poverty. Simply put, when women thrive, we all do.

This International Women’s Day, take a minute to learn more about how you can get involved to ensure that women and girls are at the center of the current efforts to reform our foreign assistance programs. Our toolkit, complete with a sample action alert, newsletter article, petition, and letter to the editor, is all that you or your organization will need to get started!

To learn more about Women Thrive Worldwide’s campaign to reform foreign assistance, please visit www.womenthrive.org/foreignassistance.

-Lorelle Curry, Women Thrive Worldwide

TAGS: International Women's Day, NGO Partner, Women Thrive

 

  1. Debbie Ksays: Mar 7th, 2009 6:15 PM EST

    March 7, 2009 at 6:15 pm

    Thank you, Lorelle, for this post regarding Women Thrive Worldwide and for your mention of
    8 March as International Women’s Day.

    Women make up the majority of people living in extreme poverty around the world. Many of these women are also mothers who are responsible for the well-being of their families. I encourage everyONE – male and female – to do more to help these women uplift themselves out of extreme poverty for their sakes and for the sakes of their children.

    You can find what we do for some of these women at the link below.

    ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE – debbie
    http://www.mpwn-uganda.org

Leave a Comment

 

Name (required)

 

Mail (will not be published) (required)

 

Website

 

Email me when someone else comments on this post.

One Blog

Popular Posts This Month

About the Blog

The ONE Blog is a daily log of the anti-poverty movement. The site is operated by ONE staff, with frequent contributions from volunteers, members and partner organizations.

The ONE Blog updates readers daily with the latest in global development news and analysis and what ONE members and our partners are doing around the world to influence world leaders in the fight against global poverty.

The content of each post and each comment represents the views of that author and does not necessarily reflect the views of ONE or ONE Action. ONE does not support or oppose any candidate for elected office, and any post expressing support or opposition for a candidate is not endorsed by ONE.