What if seeking lifesaving health care meant facing discrimination, harassment and even violence? Millions of women, girls and members of the LGBTQ+ community are discouraged from accessing health care, or even denied treatment, because of stigma regarding their gender, sexual orientation or health status. This gift will challenge the root causes of these stigmas by helping to dispel misinformation and change mindsets. Specialized sensitization trainings for health workers and community leaders will contribute to ensuring that everyone can assert their right to health care. Workshops will help empower marginalized individuals to safely access and advocate for their rights, and community centres will provide them with medical, legal and psychological services. With this gift, you will help transform health systems to become more inclusive to all so every person can survive and thrive as their authentic selves.
Humanitarian Aid
When an emergency hits, families’ lives are shattered. Losing homes, livelihoods and health means they need more than immediate aid relief to recover. This gift helps refugees access both urgent life-saving resources like food, hygiene kits and psychological first aid as well as long-term supports like savings groups and farming tools and training.
Girls Belong Everywhere
This gift helps ensure that the perspectives of girls in Canada and all over the globe are included wherever decisions are made. It engages girls in schools, refugee camps and a variety of communities to take part in leadership-skills trainings, advisory panels and meaningful interactions with governments, corporations and civil-society organizations. This gift opens space for girls in boardrooms, in politics and anywhere else they want to be.
Help End Global Hunger
Extreme hunger is one of the biggest problems in the world today – and it shouldn’t exist. With your help, we can fix it. This gift provides emergency food so no child has to starve. It also provides farming support so at-risk girls and families in the most climate-challenged parts of the world have sustainable food sources all year.
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