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Seniya, 22, she is a member of a CARE Youth VSLA group. With the money from CARE (cash livlihood transfer) with the support from Beiersdorf she was able to buy herself some goats and chickens which she raises and sells. “I have fourteen chickens, but only seven of them lay eggs, because I cannot afford to feed them properly. Sometimes I go to hotels and ask them for the guests’ leftovers to save money on the feed for my animals,” explains the 22-year-old. She sells one egg for 10 Ethiopian Birr (around 17 cents). Some of her income she saves for a girls’ savings group which CARE, with the support of Beiersdorf, has established to support girls’ businesses, give trainings, and spread awareness on different topics such as early marriage. Seniya is one of the money box key holders in her group of thirty young women aged between 18 and 24, and today’s session is being held in the courtyard of her home. Three plates in red, green, and blue are placed in front of her. One for today’s savings, one for the social fund, which they use to support others during times of personal crisis, and one for the penalty payment if someone was late to pay back their loan. Today the guided discussion topic was on early marriage. When asked who was married before the age of 18, half the girls raise their hands. When asked who had an early marriage proposal, but was able to deny it, the hands of the other half goes up – including Seniya’s. Seniya had her first marriage proposal when she was 16, but she and her mother refused. “I am the oldest of nine siblings. I learnt from my mother and friends who married early and had children with difficult deliveries with a very hard life. That scared me. So, I said no. I did not want that for myself,” she explains. Seniya’s mother Nujuma, 35, was married when she was 15 and had Seniya at 16, when she herself was still a child. “Being a mother or a wife is not just about having children. I want to be able to be a parent to my child and not have to grow up together with my own children. This young you do not even know how to breastfeed properly and giving birth is so dangerous. I also want to protect my younger sisters from marrying early,” says Seniya. "When I gave birth to Seniya, my body could not handle it. It was very difficult for me to carry. I was in labor for two days and I did not have enough breastmilk for her,” her mother Nujuma says. “I only have a little income. I sell papaya on the street. Sometimes, when I am very desperate, I go knocking from door to door to try and find someone who will buy something. It is very difficult work. The marks on my face are because I had a lifetime of working in the hot sun,” Nujuma describes. “I work hard, but it is not enough for all of us. When we buy clothes, it is on loan. And we also cannot afford enough food for everyone. Seniya and I often skip meals, so the other children can eat first,” describes Nujuma and sighs heavily, shrinking a little in her posture. Then Seniya comes back out of the kitchen to fetch a jerrican of water and places a broom in the hand of one of her siblings, and Nujuma straightens again. “But with her business we are surviving, and she has so many plans for the future. She is our strength.”
Photo Credit: CARE/Sarah Easter
A mother holding her baby

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Women’s economic empowerment boosts productivity and increases economic diversification and income equality. Support multiple charities in one pledge working to support women and girls.
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UNICEF USA: Weaving Carpets, Building Futures: Skills training for Girls and Women in Afghanistan
At a UNICEF-supported safe space for women and girls in Herat Province, western Afghanistan, 100 young women between the ages of 15 and 25 are learning the art of carpet weaving.  The vocational program offers a sense of possibility and hope for a better future for girls and young women who have been cut off from learning beyond the sixth grade since 2021, when the Taliban announced a ban on secondary and higher education for girls, effectively freezing their future.   “We could not go to school. We were distanced from our education and our goals,” says carpet weaving trainee Adila Mohamadi. “When we enrolled here, we improved psychologically. We were depressed at home.”  “This training gave me a second chance to still have a dream and work for it,” says Ruqia, another young trainee. “When I came to this center, I was reunited with so many of my school classmates...
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Plan International USA: Lisbeth’s fight for equality: Empowering girls to lead change in Peru
In some parts of Peru, girls are expected to marry and become mothers before they’ve had a chance to dream. Teenage pregnancy is widespread, and early marriage remains common —especially in rural and indigenous communities — putting girls’ futures in jeopardy. In a community where 7 in 10 women experience violence, Lisbeth has found her voice as a leader, determined to create a future where girls can learn, lead, decide and thrive.  Through Plan International’s Deciding Without Violence program, supported by donors like you, Lisbeth gained the tools and leadership skills to stand up for her rights and those of her peers. As a peer educator, she now leads efforts to educate girls in her community on their rights, how to protect themselves from harm and how to challenge societal norms that hold girls back.  Lisbeth is also actively working with local authorities to ensure that education, healthcare and equal...
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UNICEF USA: Reach For The Stars – Zhaniya’s Story
“There is only one chance in a million like that,” says Zhaniya, age 16. She is talking about a recent opportunity she had to launch a satellite into the stratosphere – something she couldn’t have imagined doing just a few months earlier. Zhaniya was one of the lucky girls who got to take part in UniSat, a UNICEF programme to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills to girls in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The UniSat programme was launched in 2020, but only 20 girls were able to take part at first. More recently, thanks to supporters of the global Gender Equality Thematic Fund, UNICEF has been able to greatly expand the UniSat programme, giving more girls like Zhaniya the chance to build their interest in STEM, space exploration and aerospace engineering. Thanks to the investment from Gender Equality Thematic Funds, the second phase of UniSat was able to...
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