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Online employment training for women workers

In many low-income countries, women lack access to job skills, technical and business training. UN Women is using webinars to train women to become economically empowered.  

Change the lives of 42 girls living with HIV/AIDS

Approximately 3,780 children and youth under age 14 are living with HIV/AIDS in the Dominican Republic. Help us make their lives easier.

Preventing mother to child HIV transmission

Prevent mother to child transmission of HIV by supporting mothers' needs during pregnancy. 

Train 200 nurses to prevent newborn asphyxiation

Seed Global Health is teaching nurses neonatal resuscitation techniques that radically improve newborn survival.

Prevent sex trafficking by educating youth

Prevent sex trafficking of minors by creating and distributing curriculums with accompanying new media.

Triggering the ‘girl effect’ in Afghanistan

By sending girls to school for the first time, you can help us create opportunity for thousands of children living in poverty in conflict-ridden Afghanistan.

Give 300 people access to safe water

Tigray is one of the most drought prone regions in Ethiopia. Less than half of the people living there can access clean water.

Fighting everyday sexism

The Everyday Sexism Project fights gender imbalance worldwide by collecting testimonies, raising awareness and speaking out.

Solar heaters for single Native American mothers

Solar air heaters provide warmth and economic security to single mothers’ families during winter on Native American reservations on the Great Plains.

Going mobile to fight extreme poverty in Guatemala

Support mobile technology to monitor and evaluate programs for women in Guatemala to start businesses, form savings groups, and plan for the future as a pathway out of poverty.