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Body Shop partners with Women's Aid to prevent domestic violence
Women’s Aid have been working in partnership with The Body Shop since 2004, as part of their long-running ‘Stop Violence in the Home’ Campaign. The Campaign aims to raise funds to develop projects that tackle the problem of domestic violence, and promote awareness of the issue amongst Body Shop...
Extending women enterpreneurship in India
To reach populations in remote areas, Hindustan Unilever has recruited and trained women in rural areas to act as direct sales operators. This led to the creation of Project Shakti in India which is now being extended to other countries as well.
Meeting the demand of low-income women: Lifespring’s maternal care in India
LifeSpring Hospital in India is innovatively meeting the growing demand of low-income women who deserve affordable and dignified medical care. By focusing on a particular niche, maternal care, and different cost-saving strategies, this hospital provides maternal care at one-fifth of market...
Mai Vietnamese Handicrafts: Crafting a Brighter Tomorrow for Disavantaged Women and Minorities in Vietnam
Mai Vietnamese Handicrafts (MVH) is a small and successful business, founded in 1990 by two passionate and energetic women. Building on the belief that social development is intricately tied to economic self‐reliance, Mai Vietnamese Handicrafts reaches out to artisans in underdeveloped areas and...
Multinational Corporations fund Hathay Bunano Proshikshan Society (HBPS), an NGO trying to promote the emploment of women in Bangladesh
While many NGOs in Bangladesh try to generate employment for the poor through microcredit, Hathay Bunano Proshikhan Samity (HBPS) chose to provide direct employment opportunities for poor women in rural areas, with special preference given to disadvantaged groups. Since 2005, the company produces...
Pamoja Women Development Programme
PAWDEP seeks to empower Kenyan women financially to run viable, competitive, and rewarding enterprises that can compete locally and internatioally, by providing microfinance solutions to women groups running small scale industry and farming. Recognizing the role played by the women in the...
Israel Women's Network (IWN)
Established in 1984, the IWN was the first organization in Israel dedicated to promoting women's rights and equality. The IWN's work is multi-faceted: promoting women's rights legislation, providing legal representation, offering educational programs, leading empowerment and leadership trainings,...
Women Empowerment Group
Women's Empowerment Group (WEG) was formed in 1999 in Lahore. WEG, a non-profit and non-governmental organisation, emphasises the rights of women and children. WEG works to strengthens the process of socio-economic development and empowerment of the disadvantaged sections of the society at the...
Social Awareness and Development Organisation for Women (SAADOW)
Social Awareness and Development Organisation for Women (SAADOW) assists the welfare and vocational development of women, children, youth and the elderly. In addition, SAADOW helps with the rural health development in prevention, medicine and education. SAADOW also provides other general awareness...
"Women Can and Do" Campaign launched in collaboration of ExxonMobil, Diane von Furstenberg and Vital Voices
Designer Diane von Furstenberg, ExxonMobil Foundation and Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international non-profit organization dedicated to women's leadership, celebrated the 2008 International Women's Day with the launch of "Women Can and Do", a campaign to empower women to become leaders in...
Credit With Education: A Program by Freedom From Hunger
Freedom from Hunger created a curriculum for Credit with Education that directly addresses women’s most pressing needs. Credit with Education is an effective, practical and financially self-sustaining way for financial service organizations to provide value-added microfinance that supports the...
In partnership with ICRW, Gap Inc. developed a programme to support women's education and capacity in developing countries
Gap Inc. collaborated with the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) to develop P.A.C.E. (Personal Advancement, Career Enhancement), a program to support scholarships and career advancement for women in the developing world.
Women on the West Bank fight poverty with enterprise
A few short years after the war in Gaza, women in the West Bank are overcoming poverty by running their own co-operatives. With training, marketing assistance, and funding from several aid agencies, the women have been able to set up their own small businesses.
Microcredit : a success-story from Nepal
Mahila Sahayogi Sahakari Sanstha (MSSS), a micro-credit provider in Nepal help the women in the country earn money by providing micro credit loans. The employees of the micro-finance institution come to their doorsteps to provide them credit and the borrowers do not have to offer their property as...
Women artisans given business opportunities in Rwanda
Indego Africa is an NGO and a fair-trade online retailer. The organisation partners with small Rwandan "cooperatives", women artisan owned and operated producers of traditional baskets, bags, and other local products, and connects them to the growing global market for African inspired handicrafts,...
Microcredit from Grameen Bank in Bangladesh: Phone ladies
In partnership with ITU (the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies), the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh has brought mobile phone services to the most isolated villages. Poor rural women now operate small businesses providing public call services to their...
ExxonMobil supported initiative for women and childrens's health and education in Angola
In 2007, the ExxonMobil Foundation supported Save the Children and Africare, together with the Angolan Ministry of Education to address the education and health needs of women and children in Kibala, in the Kwanza Sul province of Angola.
Women for Women's Human Rights - New Ways
Women for Women's Human Rights - New Ways (WWHR), founded in 1993, works toward the promotion of women human rights on a national, regional and international scale and encourages the active participation of women in the political process. WWHR concentrates its advocacy and research efforts on the...
Women Call Centre Uganda
Women Call centre Uganda is community based in Kasese Uganda requesting for empowering young women and Girls with Duck rearing. Duck Poultry is an integral component of the farming system in Uganda lake regions and provide significant nutritions to people living with HIV/AIDS And COVID-19. Before...
Kwimba Women Development (KWIMBAWODE)
The Kwimba Women Development (KWIMBAWODE) is a Tanzanian NGO established in 2004 by a group of women who are determined to work for women's rights and an improved gender balance in society. The major activities of the organization include awareness raising on women’s rights, training women's...