http://catapult.org – Education & training

Hungry students can’t learn

Education is the most promising way out of poverty, hunger, inequality and oppression for future generations of women.

Empowering Maasai girls through education

Maasai girls face many challenges because of cultural traditions such as female genital mutilation and forced early marriage, which prevent girls from continuing education.

Ms. President: Preparing girls for politics

Help convene the first ever “Girls Political Conference” for rural girls in Kenya

Provide education and empowerment to 80 refugee girls

The children and youth Heshima Kenya serves today become tomorrow’s advocates creating social change, individually and collectively.

Help 100 girls and women in Afghanistan

Restore the lives of women who have suffered from gender based violence and extreme human rights abuse in Afghanistan by providing recovery services and education.

Win back 6 weeks of school per year for girls in Kenya

ZanaAfrica is innovating a radically affordable sanitary pad to help more Kenyan girls stay in school.

Improved Health and Hygiene for Mayan Women

Latrines for 75 families will enable women and girls to advance to a new level of health, well-being, and equality in their homes and community.

Stolen lives, broken dreams

Commercial sex trafficking steals the dignity and freedom of its victims. Help us restore these most basic human rights for survivors.

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.  

Train 200 nurses to prevent newborn asphyxiation

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