Empower and Educate Women
Despite monumental leaps in gender equality, women & girls are still affected by poverty
Despite monumental leaps in gender equality in the past two decades, women and girls are still disproportionately affected by extreme poverty. When you donate to effective women’s charities, you’re making the world a safer, healthier, and fairer place.
According to the 2015 UN Millennium Development Goals report, women and girls have access to more education, economic opportunities, and political power than ever before in human history. But they still bear the impact of extreme poverty.
Nearly 99% of maternal deaths occur in developing countries.
Lifecare Initiative strives for women to have broader access to both prenatal care and contraception and family planning resources. This is a boon for both mother and child: every additional year of education for women of reproductive age decreases child mortality by 9.5%.
Now imagine you gave birth to a healthy baby, but because you were young and small and didn’t have access to necessary medical care like the Cesarean section, you incurred obstetric fistula during labor. Now you leak feces and urine. A majority of women who develop fistulas are abandoned by their husbands and ostracized by their communities because of their foul smell.
What do you think is possible if we instantly injected US$17 trillion into the global economy?
That’s the estimated cost of excluding women from the workforce and one of the reasons organizations like lifecare Initiative fight for more women.
