Celebrate International Women’s Day by attending Elevate Her: Empower, Inspire, Achieve with the International Rescue Committee and Operation Smile on March 7!
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When we launched the Environment Cause Fund in 2021, we were looking to align donor interests in protecting the Earth with the work of our charities. Even in the past few years, much has changed. As the effects of climate change have continued to accelerate at a rapid pace, it’s become increasingly apparent that the environment is just one aspect at stake with a changing climate. World hunger has been increasing for the first time in decades, fueled by droughts and other extreme weather events. Climate-fueled disasters are now the number one driver of the refugee crisis. And although all...
Facing the region’s worst drought in 70 years, more than 16 million people across the Horn of Africa cannot access enough water. Habiba Kanchora Wario was one of them. Each morning, the Kenyan mother of three would wake up at 6 a.m. to trek miles to the closest water source. The journey was hot, exhausting, and dangerous, as women are often targets of violent attacks from traveling herdsmen. After arriving hours later, Habiba would wait in the burning sun for her turn at the untreated, un-sanitized livestock trough. Livestock always drank first, so she could fill only one jerrycan—or none at all. At home, her three children would wait for her return, each hungry from a long day with little food or water. Nearly one million children just like them, across the country, are malnourished. Habiba would cook with what little she had, fall asleep, and wake the next morning...