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This rural N.C. farm helps formerly incarcerated women build back their lives, careers

Victoria Bouloubasis

May 16, 2022 |

Southerly |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Alamance County, North Carolina

Benevolence Farm provides reentry services for women to help ease the transition after incarceration. The nonprofit provides free room and board, a guaranteed job, career counseling, health appointments, and transportation.

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India's ‘barefoot counsellors' make life bearable

Sanket Jain

March 30, 2022 |

New Frame |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: India

In India, Ashas are trained community health workers in rural areas who often serve as counselors for women who don’t have access to health care, mental health services, or are facing violence. They connect women with the help they need and stay in contact to support them throughout the process.

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This Ability in the Kenyan Society

Adhiambo Edith Magak

March 23, 2022 |

The Elephant |

Video |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

This Ability Trust is a nonprofit working to help women and girls with disabilities facing violence. Their Mama Siri program is a toll-free phone service that people with disabilities can call for information and help with things like reporting violence to the police and getting to a safe space.

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Faith based group offers hope to girls suffering vesicovaginal fistula

Udeh Obaziota

February 24, 2022 |

Sparkling 92.3 FM |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Nigeria, Calabar, Cross River

Medical Missionaries of Mary is a Christian faith-based organization that works to complement the government's efforts of helping those experiencing vesicovaginal fistula by providing access to surgery for free. The group also addresses stigma around the condition and helps create a sense of community for patients.

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Making IDPs dream of moving out of camps possible

Chika Mefor

February 07, 2022 |

Media Career Development Network |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

The Skilled Women Initiative trains women trains displaced women living in camps on various skills they can use to make money and find jobs, empowering them to one day leave the camps. The initiative has trained about 700 people in skills like textile upcycling, crochet, sewing, and soap making. It also educates those in the program on how to develop a business plan to sell their goods and services and connects them with job referrals outside of the camps.

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Big Steps Forward: Cameroon's Multi-Sector Approach to Reducing Pregnancy-Related Deaths

Leocadia Bongben

December 13, 2021 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Cameroon

Several initiatives, from family planning and birth assistance education to improving access to hospital care, are reducing maternal and infant deaths. The Motor Ambulance initiative helps women get to hospitals in emergencies by providing 165 tricycles designed to navigate difficult terrain. The ambulances are run and maintained by local communities. Another program improving access to care is a health voucher system that helps women to pay for hospital deliveries. Women buy an affordable delivery kit that provides hospital staff with everything they need, including if there are complications.

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Saving Lives through Safe and Post Abortion Care amongst Urban Young Women

Hasifah Namuli

November 12, 2021 |

Metro FM 90.8 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Uganda

Better Reproductive Health, Better Communities Project is a partnership between nonprofits and medical providers working to increase awareness about unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions, while also ensuring women have better access to high-quality post-abortion care. The project has focused on providing family planning and emergency contraception to women in low-income urban areas. Volunteer peer educators and social media has helped reach over 4,000 women, spreading information about sexual and reproductive health services and connecting women to quality abortion care.

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Women lawyers provide free legal support for SGBV Survivors in Oyo state by Agidigbo 88.7 FM Podcasts

Zainab Sanni

November 05, 2021 |

Agidigbo 88.7 FM |

Podcast |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: Nigeria, Oyo State

The International Federation of Women Lawyers provides free legal support for Sexual and Gender-based violence Survivors in Oyo state. Many women cannot afford a legal challenge against a rapist or other perpetrator of violence and the federation has provided services to tens of thousands of women over the past 30 years.

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How single mothers in the remote areas of Kibuku district have been Financial empowered through Mushroom growing

Kabuye Ronald

October 26, 2021 |

Metro FM 90.8 |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Uganda, Kibuku

A church in Uganda teaches single mothers and widows to grow mushrooms to increase their household incomes. They keep the mushrooms to use at home, sell them outright, and use them to create other food products like biscuits and soup powder to sell.

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How a Cincinnati domestic violence survivor got the help she needed to break the cycle

Cameron Knight

October 25, 2021 |

Cincinnati Enquirer |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

Dvert is a partnership between Cincinnati police and Women Helping Women, a social services agency that puts domestic-violence survivors in touch with an advocate from the moment they report abuse. Advocates can provide for survivors' immediate needs, including childcare and safe shelter. They provide counseling and support to survivors throughout the prosecution of a case, should the survivor choose to pursue that remedy. More women have found the strength to pursue prosecutions, which advocates hope will ultimately keep more women safer than if they drop a complaint and reconcile with an abusive partner.

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