By: Danielle Keiser
This post is part of a series created in partnership by WASH Advocates and Women Deliver. For more information, please contact Cecilia Snyder csnyder@WASHadvocates.org and Janna Oberdorf joberdorf@womendeliver.org
Now and since the dawn of time, girls and women have bled every month. Even though many accept it is as natural and normal process in human life, menstruation is still treated as the ultimate taboo in many cultures and societies. If it is discussed, it is done so with shame, embarrassment and disgust. Read more...
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MENSTRAVAGANZA: Breaking the Silence Around Menstruation
May 17th, 2013
The Worm in Your Water
May 15th, 2013
By: Dr. Neeraj Mistry, Managing Director of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases
This post is part of a series created in partnership by WASH Advocates and Women Deliver. For more information, please contact Cecilia Snyder csnyder@WASHadvocates.org and Janna Oberdorf joberdorf@womendeliver.org
To remind ourselves why it is so vitally important to make improvements to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), all we need to do is take a look at what’s in the dirty water. Lurking in infested water sources are parasitic worms that cause diseases such as human hookworm and schistosomiasis. These infections spread easily in communities that don’t have access to clean water or sanitation facilities. Read more...
Celebrate Solutions:Safe Water and Toilets:The Foundation for Empowering Women
April 1st, 2013
By: Nicole Wickenhauser, Water.org
What would your life be like if you had to walk 3.7 miles each day for water and wait for the cover of darkness to relieve yourself? It’s hard to even imagine. Yet this is today’s reality for millions of women and girls in developing countries around the world. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be this way. Solutions are simanitation solutions. Read more...
Building Our Future, One Girl at a Time
September 14th, 2012
By: Joanna Hoffman, Women Deliver; Originally posted on End Water Poverty for Post-2015 Blog Week
Joanna Hoffman is Special Projects Manager at Women Deliver, a global advocacy organization bringing together voices from around the world to call for action to improve the health and well-being of girls and women. In this post she explains why women and girls must be at the centre of the post-2015 process, and invites you to join the Women Deliver global conference in 2013.
In just a few years, key international agreements such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the International Conference on Population and Development’s (ICPD) Programme of Action will expire. Opinions about what will come next are mixed: some believe all health issues—including maternal health, child health, and HIV/AIDS—will be collapsed into one objective; others believe the MDGs should be extended; and others believe an entirely new framework will shape the path forward. Read more...
Women and Sustainability: Women and Business Development at Rio+20 - An Interview with Tess Mateo
June 18th, 2012
By: Danielle Nierenberg, Worldwatch Institute
Women Deliver is collaborating with Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet project to highlight the important role of women, youth, and sexual and reproductive health and rights in sustainable development at the upcoming Rio+20 conference.
Name: Tess Mateo
Affiliation: Managing Director and Founder of CXCatalysts
Bio: Tess has served as director in the office of the CEO at PricewaterhouseCoopers, the strategic advisor to the Joint US China Collaboration on Clean Energy, and has launched a real estate group, technology company, and innovative specialty clothing line. She is also a member of the New York chapter of the Business and Professional Women’s Foundation. Read more...
Celebrate Solutions: Girls School Shines Light on Community’s Education, Health, and Future
February 13th, 2012
By: Dr. Aoife Kenny and Rati Bishnoi
For 67 girls, traveling daily through their slum to attend the Kibera School for Girls means getting a superior education, nutritious food, uniforms, supplies, and a chance at a brighter future—for free. Read more...
Blogging For Good: Connecting Online Audiences to Offline Actions for Women
September 20th, 2011
In the world's poorest countries, mothers risk their lives giving birth. And women and girls bear the greatest burden when it comes to all issues that contribute to poverty and poor health. Every year, an estimated 358,000 women die from complications during pregnancy and childbirth and 8.1 million children die before their fifth birthday.
Can blogging the stories of women and the challenges they face in the developing world turn empathy to action here? Three organizations, ONE, Women Deliver, and Vestergaard Frandsen set out to prove that social media can be a powerful tool to educate, inform, inspire, and make real change on issues like HIV/AIDS, maternal health, child health, clean water, environmental sustainability, and more. Read more...