Goal 3: Sexual & Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) Prevention

 We equip women with the skills, resources, and opportunities to achieve financial independence and make informed decisions about their lives. By forming safe self-help groups, women come together to support one another and share resources. Each group is formalized with a legal structure and a bank account funded with $500, allowing them to apply for loans and begin their financial journey. 

 The project provides essential empowerment training for adolescent girls as a stepping stone to leadership. We encourage rural girls to stay and succeed in school, address girls’ health and well-being, and foster girls’ agency and confidence to help them pursue their dreams 

 This approach encourages men and boys to demonstrate their role in preventing violence and supporting victims. We teach skills and reinforce positive norms about masculinity, gender, and violence, with the potential to spread these social norms through social networks.

Through the skill-based and social norm components, our program has helped men and boys reduce their risk for future perpetration. 

 We imagine a future where no child experiences sexual harassment, grooming, or any form of sexual violence. We support victims, survivors, and their families impacted by childhood sexual violence.

We will achieve this by building the capacity of educational institutions to end sexual violence through ongoing, expansive organizational change.

Our programs and workshops guide institutions as they support survivors, prevent sexual violence, and communicate that violence is unacceptable.