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Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
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Gender Equality Reduced Inequalities
Morocco Rabat, Morocco
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Local Women Educator

Excellent 4.9
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269 €  per week · 1  ‑  24  weeks · Age  18+ · Has Wifi

Tasks vary between teaching French &/or English, computer training & academic support, teaching arts & sports, sometimes sewing & cooking, & training on women health. Details >

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Gender Equality Reduced Inequalities
Tanzania Arusha, Tanzania
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Excellent 4.9
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265 €  per week · 2  ‑  50  weeks · Age  16+ · Has Wifi

Be part of a powerful movement! Help local women to create lasting change through education & skills training. Change the future for generations to come! Details >

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 Contribute to Women's Empowerment
Gender Equality Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions
Cambodia Siem Reap, Cambodia
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Contribute to Women's Empowerment

Brilliant 4.7
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1070 €  per week · 1  ‑  12  weeks · Age  18+ · Has Wifi

Contribute to sustainable and long-term gender equality initiatives in Siem Reap, a charming riverside town in Cambodia. Details >

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Tanzania Arusha, Tanzania
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Join to help this incredible NGO provide empowerment to Maasai women in Arusha at risk of from forced early marriage and FGM get training and community support. Details >

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Tanzania Arusha, Tanzania
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Brilliant 4.8
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158 €  per week · 4  ‑  26  weeks · Age  18+ · Has Wifi

Support us to empower girls and women in the areas of health, women's rights and business. Become part of an inspiring NGO that creates jobs for underprivileged women. Details >

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 Support Woman & Children Commune
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Fiji Lautoka, Fiji
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Brilliant 4.7
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Help support this community made up of almost 400 people from dis-advantaged backgrounds. Home to predominantly single mums, their children and some extended family... Details >

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Tanzania Arusha, Tanzania
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Volunteer to help to renovate and construct more hygienic, safe and comfortable spaces within an underprivileged community. Mostly serving women's projects. Details >

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The adult literacy rate in Nepal is 67% and even less for woman. Help empower young and older woman with education so they can help support themselves. Details >

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Ecuador Quito, Ecuador
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Be a volunteer at a women's shelter in Quito. Help women and their children who have suffered domestic violence. Learn about local culture while empowering these women. Details >

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Working with a women's project for single mothers to become trained, empowered and independent. Volunteer to help continue this amazing project! Details >

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Tanzania Nungwi, Zanzibar, Tanzania
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Help improving women´s lives through your skills, eduaction and help them to acquire various skills that they can live an independent life. Details >

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Tanzania Arusha, Tanzania
Siret Volunteers

Women's Empowerment for Business

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Volunteer to work with a women's project providing training and support women in need open micro businesses and get back on their feet, changing their entire lives. Details >

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Good Health And Well-Being Gender Equality Reduced Inequalities
Ghana Accra, Ghana
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Girls Empowerment

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317 €  per week · 2  ‑  50  weeks · Age  18+ · Has Wifi

We are looking for volunteers to help us in our Empowering Girls Project, which focuses on supporting girls in Ghana. Details >

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Tanzania Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Support Women Initiatives

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125 €  per week · 2  ‑  26  weeks · Age  16+ · Has Wifi

Art in Tanzania supports and develops village women's initiatives. The main focus is vocational training initiatives such as English and entrepreneurship training. Details >

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No Poverty Gender Equality Reduced Inequalities
Uganda Kampala, Uganda
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Volunteers get involved with counseling young women, adult literacy, vocational skills training and more. Details >

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We wouldn’t be able to do what we do best without the generosity of volunteers.We would be honored to have your support in helping our women with micro-finance education. Details >

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Ghana Accra, Ghana
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Support the Livelihood of Women

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We are looking for volunteers to help in our LivelihoodProject, which focuses on empowering women in Ghana through provision of loans, saving accounts, business training. Details >

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Gender Equality Reduced Inequalities
Tanzania Arusha, Tanzania
Natembelea Africa V Residence

Empowering Women and Girls

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113 €  per week · 1  ‑  12  weeks · Age  18+ · Has Wifi

This is an empowerment program based in Tanzania. The mamas and girls come from some truly heart-breaking backgrounds, including being shamed for being HIV positive. Details >

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Quality Education Gender Equality Reduced Inequalities
India Jaipur, India
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Educate girls and Women for future empowerment

Excellent 4.8
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173 €  per week · 2  ‑  12  weeks · Age  18+ · Has Wifi

Join our women empowerment program for the women who lives in slums & Experience our colourful Indian culture and teach girls and women a range of different subjects. Details >

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 Women and Girls Empowerment
Gender Equality Reduced Inequalities
Uganda Kampala, Uganda
Saint Ann Foundation

Women and Girls Empowerment

Outstanding 4.9
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250 €  per week · 1  ‑  4  weeks · Age  18+ · Has Wifi

Empowering women and girls to rise out of poverty is essential for the sustainable development of a country. To eradicate poverty, it is necessary to empower women. Details >

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Gender Equality

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Volunteer Abroad Gender Equality

Gender Equality

While the world has achieved progress towards gender equality and women's empowerment under the Millennium Development Goals (including equal access to primary education between girls and boys), women and girls continue to suffer discrimination and violence in every part of the world. Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.

Providing women and girls with equal access to education, health care, decent work, and representation in political and economic decision-making processes will fuel sustainable economies and benefit societies and humanity at large.

What's the goal here?

To achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

Facts & figures

  • About two thirds of countries in the developing regions have achieved gender parity in primary education
  • In Southern Asia, only 74 girls were enrolled in primary school for every 100 boys in 1990. By 2012, the enrolment ratios were the same for girls as for boys.
  • In sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania and Western Asia, girls still face barriers to entering both primary and secondary school.
  • Women in Northern Africa hold less than one in five paid jobs in the non-agricultural sector. The proportion of women in paid employment outside the agriculture sector has increased from 35 per cent in 1990 to 41 per cent in 2015
  • In 46 countries, women now hold more than 30 per cent of seats in national parliament in at least one chamber.

Why?

Women and girls represent half of the world's population and therefore also half of its potential. But, today gender inequality persists everywhere and stagnates social progress. As of 2014, 143 countries have guaranteed equality between men and women in their Constitutions but 52 have yet to take this step.

What happens if gender equality is not ensured?

Inequalities faced by girls can begin right at birth and follow them all their lives. In some countries, girls are deprived of access to health care or proper nutrition, leading to a higher mortality rate. As girls move into adolescence, gender disparities widen. Child marriage affects girls far more than boys. Globally, nearly 15 million girls under age 18 are married every year-or 37,000 each day. Marrying young also affects girls' education. About one third of developing countries have not achieved gender parity in primary education. In sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania and Western Asia, girls still face barriers to entering both primary and secondary school.

How does gender inequality affect women?

Disadvantages in education translate into lack of access to skills and limited opportunities in the labour market. Women's and girls' empowerment is essential to expand economic growth and promote social development. The full participation of women in labor forces would add percentage points to most national growth rates double digits in many cases.

Are there any other gender-related challenges?

Yes. Worldwide, 35 per cent of women have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence. An estimated 133 million girls and women have experienced some form of female genital mutilation/ cutting in the 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East, where the harmful practice is most common with a high risk of prolonged bleeding, infection (including HIV), childbirth complications, infertility and death.

But, why should gender equality matter to me?

Regardless of where you live in, gender equality is a fundamental human right. Advancing gender equality is critical to all areas of a healthy society, from reducing poverty to promoting the health, education, protection and the well-being of girls and boys. Investing in education programmes for girls and increasing the age at which they marry can return $5 for every dollar spent. Investing in programs improving income-generating activities for women can return $7 dollars for every dollar spent.

What can we do to fix these issues?

If you are a girl, you can stay in school, help empower your female classmates to do the same and fight for your right to access sexual and reproductive health services. If you are a woman, you can address unconscious biases and implicit associations that can form an unintended and often an invisible barrier to equal opportunity. If you are a man or a boy, you can work alongside women and girls to achieve gender equality and embrace healthy, respectful relationships. You can fund education campaigns to curb cultural practices like female genital mutilation and change harmful laws that limit the rights of women and girls and prevent them from achieving their full potential.

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Discover related Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals aim to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all. As such, the 17 SDGs and its associated 169 targets do not stand alone, but are are interconnected. The key to success on one will involve tackling issues more commonly associated with another. If you are interested in supporting a cause addressing to the goal {sdg.name}, you might also be interested in the related goals No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Good Health And Well-Being, Quality Education, Clean Water And Sanitation, Affordable And Clean Energy, Decent Work And Economic Growth, Industry, Innovation And Infrastructure, Reduced Inequalities, Sustainable Cities And Communities, Responsible Consumption And Production, Climate Action, Life Below Water, Life On Land and Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions.

Please visit the website of the United Nations to find out more about Goal 05 Gender Equality and other Sustainable Development Goals.

Source: United Nations

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