5 Year Plan To Alleviate Poverty

• To research, expand, and implement instruments to tap capital markets for social investment capital, to stimulate a major injection of funds into micro-lending initiatives.
• To develop innovative solutions to alleviate poverty and the escalating violence against women.
• Raise 1 billion dollars by 2012.

WomenAID Funds to Benefit

• CARE
• UNIFEM
• Save the Children
• Free the Children
• Women Aid Foundation
• Women AID International
• Equality Now
• Worth
• OXFAM
• Women for Women International
• Women's Funding Network
• Global Fund for Women
• Final Organizations to be determined

Beneficiaries:

WomenAid International is a humanitarian organization working around the world to support and address critical issues related to women's human rights, economic independence, access to education and the cessation of violence against women. www.womenaid.org
Save the Children, was listed as one of the top ten charities in the U.S. The organization, with operations in 40 countries is a leader in creating real and lasting change for children and women in need. www.savethechildren.org
Worth. A global women's empowerment program to help women with literacy and economic opportunity. Chosen by Worth magazine as a Top 100 charity, Pact is an exceptionally successful micro lending and skills teaching organization. www.pactworld.org
UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for women. It's budget, is approx. $60 million annually, the lowest funded of the U.N. agencies, with a mandate to help women and children in over a hundred countries worldwide. www.unifem.org
I have witnessed how investing in women's leadership and participation has brought about economic and social transformation. Noeleen Heyzer, - UNIFEM. Executive Director

		Oxfam America is committed to creating lasting solutins to global poverty, hunger and social injustice. www.oxfamamerica.org
		CARE is a humanitarian organization fighting global poverty with a special focus on women because women equipped with resources have the power to help whole families escape poverty. http://www.care.org/

WomenAID Foundation

WomenAID Foundation to fund a multi-tiered media approach to help bridge the digital divide and bring women into the 21st century.
Disseminate thousands of digital video cameras and computers as aids to accelerate skills training and human rights watch.

Media

• Women AID to Create media and PSA (Public Service Announcements) campaigns to change cultural views on the value of educating women and girls.
• WomenAID to produce television specials on women's leadership, and a feature documentary called "The Power of Women" on the State of the World's Women Funds will come from sponsorship.
  
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Witness

Support and create collaborative ventures with Witness, which partners with human rights defenders to use video to document abuse and create change.
www.witness.org