Every woman and girl has a right to reach her full potential.
World Vision’s Strong Women Strong World is a movement of people who believe that gender equality is key to effective development and creating a peaceful and stable world. Together with our UK partners, we aim to work alongside more than six million women and girls, as they're empowered to live safer, healthier and more prosperous lives by 2024.
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Gender equality is key to effective development and creating a peaceful and stable world. When women and girls enjoy equal rights, freedoms, access, and opportunities – children are better cared for, families are stronger, communities are more prosperous, and progress is accelerated.
Every minute, 22 girls under the age of 18 are married
12 million girls a year, a number that will only increase further with Covid.
Every day, women and girls spend 200 million hours collecting water
Hours they can’t spend on education, learning a skill, or earning an income.
Today 130 million girls aged 6-17 are out of school
Millions more are struggling to remain where they belong: in the classroom.
Every year millions of women and girls in some of the world’s toughest places participate in World Vision programmes that are enabling them to live stronger, safer, and more prosperous lives.
We help girls stay in school and receive quality education, by training teachers, parents and peers in literacy and numeracy methods, and by providing schools with clean water, latrines and private sanitary rooms, so that when her period comes, she can manage her menstrual hygiene.
We train community health workers who in return equip mothers with vital information and support during pregnancy and the child’s early years. Together, mothers in the community learn how to spot signs of malnutrition, to cook nutritious meals and take care of their children.
We bring clean water close to home which frees up the precious hours girls and women spend daily on collecting water. World Vision is the leading non-governmental provider of clean water in the developing world, reaching one new person every 10 seconds and three more schools every day with clean water.
We work to protect girls from female genital mutilation (FGM) and to empower and equip families with realistic alternatives to the bride-price economy. Our programmes engage children, youth, parents, community and faith leaders to address harmful practices and challenge gender norms and the status-quo together.
We equip and empower women by increasing their knowledge, business and farming skills, financial literacy, leadership opportunities, access to financial services, and incomes, so that she can take care of her family, provide her children with nutritious meals, and send them to school. Every 60 seconds we empower a family with the tools to overcome poverty.
Through our flagship projects in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Rwanda, and Bangladesh, we provide clean water, healthcare, quality education, protection, and economic empowerment opportunities to some of the world's most vulnerable women and girls.
In Kenya, we support women and girls by targeting issues such as FGM and child marriage which devastate a girl’s health, education, and hope.
In Zimbabwe, we provide young mothers with the chance to return to the classroom, or transition into employment. Read the latest GEMS report.
In Rwanda, we work to improve the financial health of women by providing them with training and access to loans.
In Bangladesh, we train community health workers to spot signs of malnutrition and other post-natal complications.
If you'd like to find out even more about Strong Women Strong World, please read our newsletters below.
Our SWSW leadership members take their commitment to the next level by actively mobilising their networks, influence, and resources to make a significant impact on behalf of women and girls through World Vision’s global community development work.
Our Leadership Group includes: Abi Mustapha-Maduakor CA, Alexandra Klein, Dr Diahanne Rhiney BCAe, Fola Komolafe, Jennica Arazi, Madalitso Zulu, Miranda McVey, Rachael Speirs, Serena Brown, Valerie Dias, Victoria Bright, Dr Womba Kamuhuza.
Our advocates stand for equal rights, freedoms, access and opportunities for women and girls – so that families are better cared for, communities are more prosperous, and progress is accelerated.
SIGN UP to join the movement and mobilise your network, influence and resources to help vulnerable women and girls around the world reach their full potential.
DONATE to the Strong Women Strong World fund and help us reach and empower women and girls in the areas of Health, Water, Education, Child Protection and Economic Empowerment.
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