Women's Empowerment

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Women's Empowerment

Across five districts in Arunachal Pradesh, more than 150 women's groups mobilize social change. They:

Improve health in the home
Change practices such as child marriage, alcholism, and violence against women
Promote kitchen gardens
Increase income through micro-credit programs

They even sing their own songs about how their lives have changed with the help of Future Generations Arunachal.

Afghan Women Improving Health

Afghan Community Health Worker with Baby

The Need: Death during childbirth is an every day occurrence in Afghanistan, which has among the highest rates of maternal and child mortality in the world. Many deaths can be prevented by changes in lifestyle and basic health care in the home.

Mosque-based Literacy Classes for Women

Women's Literacy Classes in Malistan District Women's Literacy Classes in Malistan DistrictAn estimated 79% of Afghan women and girls cannot read and write, but for the Hazara ethnic communities in the central highlands, literacy for women and the education of was common before the Taliban. In early 2002, at a community meeting organized by Future Generations in Jaghori District of Ghazni Province, the local leaders chose literacy for women as one of their initial work plan projects.

Women's Empowerment