BUILDING A BETTER WORLD FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS

“I am very proud to have been selected as an Amelia Earhart Fellow. … We need all solutions available to tackle climate change, and I am very aware that one such solution is the empowerment of women. Indeed, investing in underprivileged women’s education is the most efficient method to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty.”

—2021 Amelia Earhart Fellow Caroline Houriet, France and Switzerland

Through Her Health and Dignity, Our Priority, a safe space was established in a health facility in Timor-Leste to provide essential health services to gender-based violence (GBV) survivors, and family support centers in Papua New Guinea expanded to provide GBV survivors with specialized services.

About 625 out- of-school girls in Madagascar benefited from catch-up classes and were provided with school supplies and learning materials through the Let Us Learn program.

“I am so grateful for the Zonta International YWPA program as it really encourages you to go the extra mile and recognizes your work in the field of social service and advocacy. Being an international recipient of the Zonta YWPA Award has given me an opening to start in my own small way and I am super excited.”

—2021 Young Women in Public Affairs

Awardee Tehani Chandrasena Perera, USA and Sri Lanka

Zontians have come together to provide the necessary resources to help women and girls realize their potential. Through their generosity, our supporters are building a better world for all women and girls.

“Growing up in strong gender prejudice, was raised that it is undesirable for a woman to prioritize her career aspiration over her family. … The JMK Women in Business Scholarship will be a valuable support for me as I continue to pursue my goals … and continuously prove that women can achieve much more than what we are told to believe.”

“Receiving the scholarship gives me the validation that I obtain the required abilities and skills to be a leader in the field of information technology [and] it confirms that I have what it takes to represent successful women in technology.”

—2021 Women in Technology Scholar Amani Abusafia, Palestine

—2021 Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholar Linh Tran, Vietnam and Finland

The Adolescent Girls’ Health and Protection project in Peru reached 8,534 girls by strengthening essential adolescent health care services impacted by COVID-19.

Nearly 2.6 million adolescent girls (aged received10–19) life skills and sexualitycomprehensive education through the ProgrammeGlobal to End Child Marriage