Throughout #CongoWomenSpeak we were so impressed by womens organizations doing so much with so little to support women survivors of violence and organizing for change. In advance of #IWD2014 Jessica Tomlin of MATCH International articulate why it is so important to fund womens organizations like those we met: Of all the donations Canadians make to charities, only 8 per cent go to international organizations and more than half of that is earmarked for humanitarian crises...Missing in the flurry of female-centred fundraising initiatives is the basic concept of human rights...The grassroots organizations we are hoping to fund are not asking for much. They have annual budgets typically below $20,000. They do not fit into the tidy mold that donors are looking for. This is not flashy work, and may not make for great ads, but these are the grassroots organizations that will ultimately create the societies that respect girls and women. And that ought to be enough. thestar/opinion/commentary/2014/03/06/women_and_girls_arent_just_tools_for_development.html
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:05:27 +0000