The Butterfly Project. In 2005 when nurse Carole Peccorini went to Uganda as part of a relief team distributing glyconutrients and vitamins to orphans, she tucked 1,200 iridescent butterflies into her suitcase as gifts. She was moved by meeting girls who wanted to serve their rural communities as teachers and nurses but lacked the financial resources to pursue their dreams. Before she left East Africa, she had committed to send ten orphans to college (tuition, books, room and board, transportation to and from school and mentoring). You can help. Village Volunteers will match your donation.
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The International Women’s
Democracy Center trains women from Central Asia, Southern
Africa, Northern Ireland and the Middle East to stand as candidates
for election in their own countries. Click
here to see 15 ways you can give IWDC your support.
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Calling
the Circle is an exchange program between California and
Uganda. Women leaders from both regions visit women leaders in the
other, learning about each others’ lives and strategies. The
exchange is a program of the Women’s Intercultural Network
and the California Women’s Agenda.
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Global Leadership: The
Global Business Women’s Network presents the Global
Summit Of Women that is attended by women business owners and heads
of state from all over the world. Their on-line resource, globewomen.com,
can help you grow your business across borders. Their Corporate
Women Directors International promotes the increase participation
of women on corporate boards globally.
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Local Leadership: California
Women’s Agenda is a state action alliance of over 500
organizations in California, working together to implement the Beijing
Platform at the grassroots. CAWA links women and girls in collective
action through real and "virtual" networks.
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Vital
Voices is a global partnership that trains women leaders
in emerging nations to build democracies, strong economies and peace.
Their work focuses on: expanding women's roles in politics and civil
society; increasing women's successful entrepreneurship; fighting
trafficking in women and girls and other human rights abuses. Graduates
become part of a Global Network, an affiliation of women leaders
across the globe linked through on-going dialogue, technical assistance
and professional support.
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The Center for Women's Global
Leadership develops and facilitates women's leadership for
women's human rights and social justice worldwide. Founded in 1989
as a project of Douglass College at Rutgers, the center played a
galvanizing role in the United Nations conference on human rights
(Vienna, 1993) and in the 1995 UN conference in Beijing, by helping
secure global policy commitments that "women's rights are human
rights." CWGL programs include annual residential Women's Global
Leadership Institutes on campus.
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