Ongoing instability is leaving children hungry and without safe access to essentials. Help us meet urgent needs for kids and families affected by this crisis.
Women & Girls
Every woman and girl has a right to reach her full potential.
World Vision intentionally focuses on women and girls in all aspects of our work.
We believe ending extreme poverty is possible, but it won’t happen as long as half the population is held back. When women and girls gain equal access and opportunity, children are better cared for, families are stronger, and communities are more prosperous. Our strong partnerships with communities and faith leaders, grounded in evidence-based models, empower women and girls and foster safer, more equitable communities.
That’s why World Vision has launched the Beyond Access program, built on the belief that ending extreme poverty can be accelerated when families increase their incomes through empowering women.
2030 GOAL
Join us now, as we begin our 2030 plan to equip and empower 150 million women and girls to reach their full potential.
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The need
Women and girls in poverty face more obstacles simply because they were born female, obstacles that keep them from reaching their full potential.
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The global water crisis hits girls and women the hardest. In fact, women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa alone spend nearly 200 million hours per day on water collection – hours they can’t spend getting an education, learning a skill, or earning an income.
Women face more barriers to accessing technology, credit, financial services, and economic opportunity. Globally, 740 million women do not have access to financial services.
Girls are hurt by harmful cultural norms and traditions, including child marriage and early pregnancy. Every year, 12 million girls are married before the age of 18. That's 22 girls every minute.
At least 200 million women and girls worldwide have endured female genital mutilation (FGM). That's more than the entire female population of the United States.
Our response
World Vision intentionally focuses on women and girls in every aspect of our work because we know that when women and girls reach their full potential, everyone wins.
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We do this by:
Bringing clean water close to home, which frees up precious hours for women and girls. And menstrual hygiene management programs to help girls stay in school.
Equipping and empowering women economically by increasing their knowledge, business and farming skills, financial literacy, leadership opportunities, and access to financial services, and incomes.
Freeing girls from child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) by empowering and equipping families with realistic alternatives to the bride-price economy.
Our impact
As a reflection of God’s love for men and women, World Vision has been a leader in addressing equality for women and girls for decades.
Together with our donor partners, we are making a significant impact in the lives of women and girls globally, empowering them to overcome the unique obstacles they face. We exceed our last goal of empowering 30 million women and girls to live safer, healthier, and more productive lives — reaching 30.1 million — and now we’re aiming to reach 150 million more by 2030.
Here is the progress we have made together towards our audacious new eight-year goal:
23.8M women and girls reached
23,824,653 women and girls were reached through World Vision's projects across all sectors and countries.
3.2M reached with clean water
3,214,345 women and girls gained access to clean water close to home, significantly reducing the time they spend walking and hauling water.
2.1M empowered economically
2,120,033 women and girls have benefited from access to financial services, savings groups, agricultural training, technology, and markets.
We are blessed to partner with hundreds of philanthropists and advocates and couldn’t do this work without them. And we’re able to reach more people because of our highly collaborative local and global partnerships within private and public sectors.
Sherrie Woodring
donor partner, Virginia
"I trust that my partnership with World Vision makes a difference in the lives of girls and women."
Dana Dornsife
donor partner, California
“The quickest way to empower a woman is to make sure she has clean water. And then, she can soar.”
Sherree Funk
donor partner, Pennsylvania
"Nothing compares with seeing a child drink clean water for the first time. The sparkle in her eyes tells you her life just changed for the better, and you are never the same."
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