 The Public Interest Law Center
Chad
PILC offers trainings in family law and basic human, civil, labor and environmental rights. The trainings provide an opportunity to deepen citizen's understanding of their rights under the law. Spark's grant allowed 100 women to attend Delphine's trainings. The desired effect is to educate attendees and to foment a process of community education and empowerment about their legal rights.
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 The Mandiso Water Pump Project
Madagascar
The Mandiso Water Pump Project is a grassroots cooperative of women who train other women subsistence farmers in Southern Madagascar on the use and maintenance of foot-powered water pumps.
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 OASIS for girls
San Francisco
OASIS for girls in SOMA provides holistic education programs to low income and immigrant girls at no cost from elementary school to high school and beyond.
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 The Asia Foundation
Vietnam
The Asia Foundation is providing vocational educational opportunities to girls in Vietnam.
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 Sakena Yacoobi
Afghanistan
Sakena Yacoobi's Afghan Institute of Learning is changing the face of education for girls in Afghanistan.
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 CAMFED Mothers Support Groups
Zimbabwe
These Mothers Support Groups are creating an environment where girls education is not only an opportunity, it is an expectation.
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 Makana Project
Jordan
A group of women in Jordan seek to ignite change in their community by providing a voice to women activists.
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 Awaeena
Jordan
A group of women in Jordan seek to empower their peers through a clothes recycling program.
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 Carmen Ortiz
San Francisco, CA
A breast-cancer survivor who has changed the lives of hundreds of Bay Area Latina women by providing language-based support groups for those who are living with cancer.
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 Lornah Kiplagat
Kenya
Lornah Kiplagat, one of Kenya's first great female marathoners, defied Kenya's traditional roles for women at home and on the farm by using her prize money to establish and operate a camp to train the next generation of women runners.
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 Salima Sarwar
Bangladesh
The Association for Community Development, founded by Salima Sarwar, empowers Bangladeshi women to gain economic independence through programs on literacy, human rights, education, trafficking, as well as an innovative tree-planting initiative.
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 Justicia Para Nuestras Hijas, Casa Amiga Centro Crisis
Mexico
These mothers in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico all have one thing in common: their daughters have been kidnapped and killed in a rash of killings that continues even today. They have come together to find justice and hope for the future generation.
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 Abuhujumatima
Rwanda
A group of courageous widows in Rwanda come together to rebuild their lives after the genocide. Learn more about the tragedy that they have experienced and about their fight to overcome.
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