AWARE-Uganda is based in Kaabong, on the border of South Sudan - a semi-desert, impoverished, remote warrior region. Life in Kaabong is a constant struggle, especially for the women.
Blue Veins is based in Peshawar, Pakistan, and works to empower women and improve their status, and to overcome the barriers silencing women and girls. Blue Veins is born out of a need for information, activism and grassroots organizing towards the empowerment of women.
COFAPRI is registered in Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Rupublic of Congo
The organisation empowers women through encouraging income-generating activities such as the rearing of livestock.
Compassion CBO, was formed to eradicate poverty through education and sustainable development among women living in the slums and rural areas of Kenya and to rehabilitate orphans and vulnerable children.
The current projects of New Life include orphanages for children of incarcerated parents, saving children from child labour, ensuring primary education for the rural children in India,
Samuel Siriria Leadismo is the very first Samburu warrior to start an organization to eradicate Female Genital Mutlation and child marriage... We work at the grassroots, in a poverty-stricken region of Kenya, to promote the rights of girls.
Rural Women Center for Education and Development (RuWCED) works to promote health, education, livelihoods, and rights of women and children in north-west Cameroon.
SAWERA works for women's empowerment, education and peace in the tribal regions of Pakistan.
Sewa is a humanitarian, non-profit organization working across Sindh province in Pakistan.
The organisation works to eradicate poverty through providing facilities, training and education.
SURCOD works to empower women and girls in Malawi. Projects include helping disadvantaged children access secondary education and developing women's community enterprises.
Uganda Rural Information and Communication Technology/Education Center implements community-based projects in the Busoga region of Eastern Uganda.
Girls start giving birth as early as the age of 14, and men marry 3-10 women on average....
At the grassroots level, VOW Initiative works with girls undergoing harmful traditional practices like breast ironing, FGM, as well working with rape victims. We also work with widows, and women and young people in prisons, and sex workers....
WFAC Cameroon works to promote and protect Cameroonian young women's human rights, and to support, connect, and encourage women to work together to create a caring community.
Our founder is a Sierra Leonean and lives in Freetown. During the civil war, he was forced to become a child soldier. In the middle of a gun battle, he risked his life to save a 5 year-old girl who had lost her parents. With this in mind, in 2009, he decided to use his education and professional network to help more small children.