There are many charities and organizations across the world working hard to support and aid women and girls. These specific charities focus their efforts on multiple different causes and issues which come together to benefit girls and women around the world. Check out these ten organizations and start supporting them today!
1. Days For Girls International
Days for Girls works to support girls and young women throughout their entire lifecycle. They do so by providing girls with a DfG Kit, which teaches her about health education.
Girls On The Run inspires girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident while using a fun, experience-based curriculum, which creatively integrates running. They wish for a world where every girl knows and activates her limitless potential and is free to boldly pursue her dreams.
Women On Wings works to create one million jobs for women in rural India. These jobs would provide an income and an escape for families in the cycle of poverty. It has been shown that women spend their income on their families, which helps their children be able to attend school and have a better future.
Womankind Worldwide provides direct support for women and girls to escape from violence to a safe place. They also work to change laws and policies, which discriminate against women and girls, and challenge the damaging attitudes at the root of inequality.
Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 700 civil society organizations that are committed to ending child marriage. They also hope to enable girls to fulfil their full potential. They believe that every girl has the right to lead the life that she chooses and by ending child marriage, we can achieve a safer and healthier future for all.
Tostan International is an African-based organization that works directly with rural communities leading their own development. They empower these communities to bring about sustainable development and positive social transformation based on respect for human rights. They also believe that through their mission they can ensure that every person is able to live a life of dignity.
Keep A Breast’s mission is to empower young people around the world with breast health education and support. They believe that art heals, education empowers, awareness inspires, and action transforms. They began as a small effort to build a community through the arts, which is essentially the core of their mission today. To help out you can donate directly, purchase bracelets, or raise funds.
Women’s Funding Network brings awareness to the worldwide face of poverty that belongs to women and children. Community by community, woman by woman, they work to change this. They have more than 100 women’s funds and foundations engaged and it is the largest philanthropic network in the world devoted to women and girls.
9. Women for Women International
Women for Women believes that strong women build strong nations. In countries affected by conflict and war, they support the most marginalized women to earn and save money, improve health and well-being, influence decisions in their home and community, and connect to networks for support. This organization has helped more than 447,000 marginalized women and they serve women in 8 countries by offering support, tools, and access to life-changing skills to move from crisis and poverty to stability and economic self-sufficiency.
10. The Malala Fund
The Malala Fund wants to see a world where every girl can complete 12 years of safe and quality education. They advocate for resources and policy changes, invest in developing country leaders and organizations, and amplify girls’ voices. They believe that girls should speak for themselves and tell leaders what resources they need to learn and achieve their potential.