Safe World Field Partners

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New Life

The current projects of New Life include orphanages for children of incarcerated parents, saving c...

Pankh

Pankh is based in Lucknow, the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, India, Pankh educates and counsels ...

Sewa Development Trust Sindh

Sewa Development Trust Sindh is a humanitarian, non-profit organization working across Sindh provi...

AWARE Uganda

AWARE-Uganda is based in Kaabong, on the border of Sudan. A semi-desert, impoverished, warrior reg...

Empower & Care Organization (EACO)

EACO is situated in the Mukono District in central Uganda. The organisation's activities are targ...

Bakkade Foundation Network (BAFNET)

Bakadde Foundation Network (BAFNET)  is located in the Makindye Mubarak Zone, in Kampala Dist...

COFAPRI

Congolese Females Action for Promoting Rights and Development (COFAPRI) is based in Bukavu in th...

WEAVE

Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE) is committed to working with marginalize...

Centre Ubuntu

Centre Ubuntu is based at Bwira in western Rwanda and helps women survivors of the horrors of the ...

SURCOD

The Sustainable Rural Community Development Organisation (SURCOD) works at the forefront of adva...

RUWON Nepal

Safe World Field Partner in Nepal. Rural Women's Network Nepal (RUWON) - working for equal rights ...

WFAC Cameroon

Women for a Change Cameroon was founded in November 2009, by Zoneziwoh Mbondgulo, to respond to th...

Young Women for Change (YWC)

Young Women for Change (YWC) is a grassroots feminist movement based in Afghanistan YWC was found...

SAWERA

Safe World Field Partner in Pakistan, SAWERA, works for women's empowerment and is based in Peshaw...

Brown Button Foundation

The BBF works to tackle the root causes of maternal mortality in Nigeria, promotes women’s sexua...

  • New Life

  • Pankh

  • Sewa Development Trust Sindh

  • AWARE Uganda

  • Empower & Care Organization (EACO)

  • Bakkade Foundation Network (BAFNET)

  • COFAPRI

  • WEAVE

  • Centre Ubuntu

  • SURCOD

  • RUWON Nepal

  • WFAC Cameroon

  • Young Women for Change (YWC)

  • SAWERA

  • Brown Button Foundation

"Through working with locally-based groups, we can help to make sustainable changes in a culturally-sensitive and empowering way."
Chris Crowstaff, Founder, Safe World for Women

From the Grassroots

No Education - No Future, Say Women and Children of DRC

"The way you see me here is the way I am every day: no shoes, no food, nothing. I see other children going to school, but me – not. My mother is poor. But I…

A devastating fire displaces an already displaced population

A little over two weeks after my visit.. a devastating fire swept through the camp, killing 37 people, destroying more than 400 houses and leaving 2,300 people…

DRC's Men of Courage & Peace - Determined to Defend Women's Rights, Despite Arrest

'You are my fathers and I am your son... Think of how to arrest those who rape these women we are serving and not us who serve them.' - COFAPRI coordinator…

Kenya: Grassroots Rescue Centre for the Children of Nairobi's Slums

Schools in the slums require a feeding programme for children, for many can’t sit and listen when hungry... The interval between meals for these children is…

Karenni Refugee Camp: Before the Fire

Filmed two weeks before a devastating fire swept through a Karenni refugee camp in Thailand, Reuters reporter, Thin Lei Win documented the work of two refugee…

Rural Uganda: Water Collection Exposes Women and Children to Danger

Water collection is a real danger for children targeted for child sacrifice. Women also get raped on occasion when walking in the dark to collect water. Water…

Uganda: Child Safety Fund - Boreholes Help Prevent Child Sacrifice

While walking long distances to collect water, children are vulneralbe to kidnapping and abduction for child sacrifice, which is still prevalent in regions…

Uganda: New Borehole in Village Means More Time for School

The villagers are very happy about their new borehole project, thanks to a grant from Just a Drop. The old swamp was dangerous, 3 km away from the village....

Working to Abolish Child Sacrifice in Uganda - Report by EACO

Ms Jalia Katusiime left her five-year-old daughter, Shammim Muhammed, with a neighbour. When she returned, both Shammim and Mr Muwunga, her neighbour, were…

Safe World for Women Statement on the Bombing of SAWERA Office in Pakistan

Safe World for Women strongly condemns the targeting of our field partner, SAWERA. In July last year, co-founder Farida Afridi was brutally murdered, and on…

Pakistan: Bomb explosion - Office of NGO targeted in Hayatabad

After the brutal killing of its executive director last year, SAWERA – an NGO working to promote women’s rights – once again came under attack. A bomb was…

Bomb Blast at Office of Women-Led NGO in Peshawar, Pakistan

At 4.35 am Pakistan time on 30th March 2013, SAWERA's office was hit by a bomb blast. All equipment, including the vehicle, was destroyed. Staff are left in…