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WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT FUND
The Women's Advancement Fund empowers severely
disadvantaged women and girls by providing education, vocational
training, micro-credit, legal rights education, protection from
trafficking or abuse, and other initiatives to improve their lives.
Millions of women and girls in Asia are caught in a vicious cycle of
poverty, exploitation, and abuse without hope for a better life.
The Women's Advancement Fund supports local
organizations in communities across Asia to give girls and women at
the bottom of the economic and social ladder the means to a better
life. Examples of current programs include marketable vocational
skills training for women in Afghanistan and Bangladesh that enables
them to earn an income; scholarships for poor girls in Cambodia who
would otherwise not be able to attend school; micro-loans and small
business training for victims of trafficking in Vietnam, and the
creation of the first-ever shelter and counseling center for victims
of violence in Laos.
The Women's Advancement Fund represents The Asia
Foundation's long-standing commitment to empowering women and girls
who otherwise would not have opportunities to move out of severe
poverty, exploitation, or abuse. Contributions to the Women's
Advancement Fund will give women the opportunity to build their
confidence and succeed in making better lives for themselves and
their families.
Projects in Need
of Funding
Afghanistan:
Post secondary school opportunities for young women (Goal $10,000 -
$100,000)
Afghanistan: Vocational
training for at-risk Afghan women in Baghlan Province (Goal
$45,000)
Bangladesh: Help 20,000
victims of violence and trafficking develop marketable job skills
(Goal $75,000)
Cambodia: Enable
50 poor, vulnerable young women to develop marketable job skills
(Goal $40,000)
Cambodia: Send
hundreds of poor rural girls to secondary school (Goal
$100,000)
China: provide migrant
workers with the resources to adapt to urban life (Goal
$50,000)
East Timor: Help rural
girls attend primary and secondary school (Goal
$40,000)
Korea: Give trafficking
victims the skills they need to re-enter society (Goal
$22,000)
Mongolia: Increase
women's influence in public decision-making (Goal
$18,500)
Nepal: Help very poor
young women attain a basic education and better jobs (Goal
$114,000)
Pakistan: Provide
education and income-generating skills to poor rural women (Goal
$35,000)
Pakistan: Provide small
loans to enable 200 disadvanted rural women to start businesses
(Goal $20,000 - $40,000)
Vietnam:
Help trafficking victims start new lives and find good jobs (Goal
$50,000)
For a complete description of the programs download
the brochure (pdf 963 KB).
For more information, or to make a gift, please contact Kate
Capossela at 415-743-3366 or via email.
To make an online donation now, visit our How To Give
page.
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