Check 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
Most of us can’t imagine trying to support ourselves, let alone our entire family, on just a dollar a day. But millions of women around the world are forced to do exactly that because they do not have economic opportunity.
This February, in honor of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month (March), I left my home in Annapolis, MD and traveled to Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in the Americas, to try to experience what it was like to live on less than $1 a day.
In Nicaragua, I stayed with a member of FEMUPROCAN, an agricultural cooperative that helps women produce and sell crops in organic, sustainable, and income-generating ways. I met (more…)
