Post Tagged with: "poverty"

Girl on a Mission

Miranda Malone and another NPH volunteer with some of the "pequenos" | Photo by Alex Hanel, NPH International

How An Org. Dedicated To Lifting Girls Out Of Poverty Changed The Course Of My Mother’s Life (And Mine!)

By Miranda Malone If only we, as women, knew we had such power. Power to not only enrich our own lives but positively change the destiny of little girls who, […]

Causes

Economic Empowerment: The Importance Of Financially Independent Women

Economic Empowerment: The Importance Of Financially Independent Women

We’ve heard the statistics before: a woman makes 81 cents for every dollar a man makes. The wage gap and gender inequality in the workplace are still prevalent and while […]

Celebrities

How The Most Successful Women Schedule Their Work-Life Balance

How The Most Successful Women Schedule Their Work-Life Balance

Time is our most valuable resource. Some of us will have a lot more than others in the long run, but from week to week we are each allotted the […]

Health

New UNFPA Study Outlines Inequalities In Sexual Health & Reproductive Rights Globally

New UNFPA Study Outlines Inequalities In Sexual Health & Reproductive Rights Globally

When it comes to reproductive and sexual health policies and access, it’s easy to focus just on what is happening within our own communities and even countries. Here in the […]

Causes

Uganda-Based Non-Profit Aiming To Teach 1 Million Girls About Women’s Health, Sexual Violence & Careers

Uganda-Based Non-Profit Aiming To Teach 1 Million Girls About Women’s Health, Sexual Violence & Careers

In 2015, the United Nations released a set of targets called the Sustainable Development Goals, signed by a number of countries around the world, with the aim at eradicating poverty […]

Working Women

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The Avon Ladies Of Renewable Energy – Solar Sister Bringing Light & Jobs To African Women

Renewable energy is a topic of major concern globally today, especially in light of climate change policies and the knowledge of human impact on our environment. One of the most […]

Health, Interviews

‘The Women Of The Rose’ Author On Why Poverty Shouldn’t Prevent Breast Cancer Treatment

‘The Women Of The Rose’ Author On Why Poverty Shouldn’t Prevent Breast Cancer Treatment

Many of us know someone whose life has been affected by breast cancer. Some of us may have gone through it ourselves. Cancer is the disease that knows no religious, […]

Interviews

YWCA Teams Up With Planned Parenthood To Change The Lives Of Underserved Women

YWCA Teams Up With Planned Parenthood To Change The Lives Of Underserved Women

We have just endured one of the most divisive, agonizing and, at times, heartbreaking elections in modern US history. Let’s be honest, we ALL felt it! The reason we as […]

Interviews

Canadian Band Van Halst Waxes Lyrical On Feminism, Religion, & Rape Culture On Debut Album ‘World Of Make Believe’

Canadian Band Van Halst Waxes Lyrical On Feminism, Religion, & Rape Culture On Debut Album ‘World Of Make Believe’

You’ll never find an article about artists feuding on Twitter on our site, but you WILL find interviews about musicians who know how to use their platform to raise their […]

Girl on a Mission, Interviews

This Clothing Brand Employs Former Inmates From The Largest Women’s Prison In The US

This Clothing Brand Employs Former Inmates From The Largest Women’s Prison In The US

Here are some sobering truths about America, the so-called “greatest nation on earth”. Apart from the well-known fact that we are the most heavily armed country in the world, and […]

Politics

Pakistan Launches New Initiative To Empower Women And Children Out Of Poverty

Pakistan Launches New Initiative To Empower Women And Children Out Of Poverty

A new empowerment initiative in Pakistan is set to help women and children escape a life of poverty and create role models to inspire them to know what they are […]

Sports

This Former Child Bride Escaped Poverty & Stigma To Become A National Wrestling Champ

This Former Child Bride Escaped Poverty & Stigma To Become A National Wrestling Champ

When we hear stories out of India, they are often the kind featuring some kind of gender violence, oppression and inequality, especially in relation to women and children. Granted, there […]