Women’s Empowerment
The demands of life weigh on her from the moment she wakes up. There is always a need. She has unlimited potential, and you can help her unlock it.
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Impact
Empower women. Strengthen families.
61K+
Women & Girls Empowered in 2024
245K+
Women & Girls Trained Since 2010
29
Countries With Women’s Empowerment Programs in 2024
$300
Provides Seed Capital for One Woman To Start a Business
What We Do
Help women find new opportunities.
When women participate in the Convoy of Hope Women’s Empowerment program, the cycle of poverty is broken. With your help, Convoy partners with women as they start their own businesses and support their families. Empowering women and girls to advocate for themselves creates opportunities that last for generations.
After I joined, I have seen so many changes in my family. I can pay for all my children’s expenses. I even have savings!
Statistics
By the numbers.
Research indicates that when more income is put into the hands of women, child nutrition, health, and education improves.
Globally, nearly 700 million people live in extreme poverty — on less than $2.15 per day.
One study showed an estimated 119 million school-age girls were not in school.
Approximately 800 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.
When women earn an income, they reinvest 90% of their resources back into their families and communities.
Each year, around 12 million girls become child brides before turning 18.
Globally, nearly 4 in 10 adolescent girls and young women do not complete upper secondary school.
Approach
Empower women with the tools to build happier, healthier futures.
Convoy partners with women to create a customized and holistic strategy that fits their needs.
Economic Empowerment
When a woman generates an income, it doesn’t only benefit her — the entire community profits. Through the training techniques below, Convoy equips women to start and successfully operate their own businesses.
- • Financial education
- • Vocational training
- • Cooperative savings groups
- • Microenterprise business training
- • Startup capital (not a loan)
Family Health Empowerment
Convoy trains and educates women, including expectant mothers, in early childhood development, nutrition, health, hygiene, literacy, cooking, and even small-scale agriculture.
- • Participants who engage in Convoy’s programming have the opportunity to receive a month’s worth of food to help supplement their diet.
- • We provide mothers — with emphasis on those expecting — with vitamins for both themselves and their children.
- • Mothers with children under 5 years old can have them monitored through Convoy’s programming to both reduce malnutrition and maintain healthy development.
Girls’ Empowerment
Girls’ Empowerment groups are educational programs that help girls identify and strengthen their voice — both individually and collectively.
In this program, girls learn about self-esteem, positive decision-making, nutrition, physical and emotional health, menstrual health, gender-based violence, and harmful beliefs and practices. This education helps them plan for their futures.
