With Your Amazing Support Over the Last Four Years, We Have Helped The Lives Of Thousands Of Women And Children.

Since launching our International Women’s Day Charity Luncheon in 2020, we have raised $70,000 and impacted thousands of people globally through life-changing community-led initiatives. Every dollar raised has gone directly to grassroots projects that empower women and create sustainable solutions for education, healthcare, and economic independence.

And this year we aim to raise $40,000 to support the following projects:

– $28,500 will fully fund 30 women in Asembo, Kenya, providing them
with essential skills and vocational training to start sustainable
micro-businesses.

– The balance raised will fund a nurse on a motorbike in Malawi,
delivering crucial maternal and infant healthcare to 50 mums and
their babies.

2021 Charity Projects

Project One:

On the traditional and isolated Buyiga Island in Uganda, there are few resources to go around. Girls are often held back from school as they need to work for the family. This leads to high illiteracy rates among women, making it difficult to earn a living. Without a steady income, some girls are forced to sell sex, resulting in teenage pregnancies and instances of HIV/AIDS.

This project aims to alleviate the burden on women and girls by providing an opportunity to learn to read and write, and to be trained to make hygiene products that they can use and sell. This will support their own health, while providing an income generator.

Over 4 months, 50 girls will receive literacy and basic maths classes, as well as sex education so they can protect themselves from HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancies. They’ll then be trained how to make soap and sell it in the local market so they can earn an income and build safer futures.

Project Two:

Babies born prematurely account for 12% of all under 5 mortality in Kenya. In poorly-resourced rural Kenyan hospitals, incubators are costly and unreliable due to power shortages. Healthcare providers advocate for Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) to reduce infant mortality in preterm babies. KMC is prolonged skin-to-skin contact between the mother and her baby, that provides warmth, promotes breastfeeding, and reduces infections for preterm bubs.

In the poorest rural areas, quality KMC wraps are expensive so women make do with alternative makeshift-wraps that are less hygienic and difficult to use. 

This project will train 20 local seamstresses in the production of cost effective, sterile and comfortable KMC wraps that ensure the preterm baby is secured properly and is comfortable enough for the mother during changing and feeding cycles. 

These locally produced wraps will be sold at an affordable rate to new mothers in KMC units.This beautiful project will create a solution for prenatal care, as well as create economic opportunities for rural women.

Project Three:

Domestic violence and child sexual abuse create psychological traumas that are extremely difficult to overcome without professional support. Despite this, and a high prevalence of domestic violence in Vietnam, psychological therapy is out of reach for most Vietnamese people. For some single mothers who already face multiple disadvantages, unresolved trauma negatively impacts their own parenting, as well as their ability to work and move on with their lives.

This project will provide emergency counselling for the most in-need women, whether they’re trying to leave an abusive relationship, or are learning to provide for their children as a solo mother. Each woman will receive 8 one-to-one counselling sessions with a Vietnamese psychologist. She’ll also join a community of gender-based violence survivors where she’ll receive support and solidarity from other women with shared experiences, and have access to ongoing professional psychological support.  Women will start to recover from their trauma, break the cycle of abuse, and rebuild safer, more stable lives.