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Your donation will help thousands of pregnant women realize safe and healthy pregnancies by training ten OB/GYNs on how to better serve patients who are pregnant and their newborns. more With your gift we will be able to cover some of the costs of sending a youth activist to the 5-yr Review of the UN Special Session on Children. By sending a youth activists to this meeting you will ensure that youth voices are heard and taken into account in the decisions being made. more This gift will provide 100 condoms to young people in Mali, West Africa, as part of a comprehensive, practical educational strategy. Since 2005, FCI has pioneered a peer-to-peer approach to educating young workers. more Your gift of $60 buys 10 midwife supply kits for graduates of Women for Women International’s Health Training Workshops. more This gift will pay for a community organizer to work with a remote West African village for 3 months — building relationships with community leaders and providing information about women’s right to lifesaving maternity care. more Your gift will focus on providing a clean and safe delivery for mother and child. A clean delivery kit, with sterile gloves, gauze, scissors and antibiotic ointment, will greatly reduce the chances of infection. And continuing care after delivery will ensure that mother and child stay healthy. more Gift provides an alternative rite of passage for one Maasai girl who refuses to submit to FGM. $100 allows a girl to spend a month at V-Day Safe House for Girls in Narok, Kenya. In 2002, V-Day helped found Safe House to provide a safe haven for Maasai girls. more Your gift will provide two days of intensive classroom and practical training for a doctor or nurse in a developing country to gain the skills they desperately need to save babies experiencing breathing or other cardio-pulmonary difficulties at birth. more Our comprehensive, faith-based sexuality education for African American and Latino teens encourages improved youth decision-making about sexuality and preventing pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections. more Equal Access' 30-minute radio programs, broadcast via satellite and FM/AM radio, contribute to empowerment of communities in the developing countries by providing critical information on people's rights, education, health, livelihood and social services available in an engaging format. more Your gift of $200 will help pay a portion of the average monthly salary for a qualified nurse working in a basic health clinic in a rural community in the developing world. more This gift will cover two weeks’ transportation costs, enabling FCI’s community organizers to reach dozens of isolated villages and empower women to claim the care they need. more |