Girls' Voice Amplifier Fund for DIN Malawi
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Dear Friends and Family,
Help Global Health Alliance fundraise for our nonprofit partner, Development Initiative Network (DIN) Malawi, and their initiative aiming to end child marriage and gender-based violence in the Chikwawa district of Malawi!
We are Global Health Alliance at the University of Chicago, a student-run organization that, among other things, works very closely with our global partner organization, DIN Malawi. It's our mission as students to support DIN in every way that we can--academically, through volunteering, financially, and through friendship.
Over the past few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to massive school closures in Malawi. In the past, schools have been essential in keeping children and teens busy and reducing rates of child marriages and early pregnancies.
Not only have these school closures caused child marriages to begin rising at an alarming rate, but several days ago, it came to light that an 11 year old girl was defiled in Malawi's N'chalo district, followed by dozens more cases of child rape reported across the country in the following days. This has incited national fury and outrage, as well as the launching of new anti-sexual assault and anti-child marriage initiatives.
In response, DIN Malawi has chosen to launch a new community-wide initiative, Girl's Voice Amplifier, with the goal of ending child marriage and gender-based violence in Malawi's Chikwawa district.
Girls' Voice Amplifier would involve a holistic approach that aims to empower girls at risk for child marriage through information and support networks, as well as working with the girls' teachers and guardians to keep their education accessible and shift community attitudes about child marriage.
In order to launch this new initiative within the next month, DIN Malawi must fundraise its budget of $5,500 in the next few weeks. Please help Global Health Alliance in our mission to raise as much money as possible in the name of the victims and make DIN Malawi's goal a reality.
Thank you!
After you donate, please be sure share this campaign with your families, friends, colleagues, and others!
You can donate in other ways below:
Venmo: gha_uc
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Development Initiative Network (DIN Malawi) is a local non-profit organization currently working in the Lower Shire southern region of Malawi. DIN Malawi was established in February 2012 to respond to the needs and challenges affecting vulnerable communities in Chikwawa and Nsanje.
To read more about DIN and their work, please visit https://dinmlw.wordpress.com/.
Global Health Alliance is an equity-focused RSO that engages with community health in three ways: supporting a grassroots partner overseas, supporting a grassroots partner in Chicago, and educating the University of Chicago campus.
To connect with GHA and read more about our mission, please visit https://www.facebook.com/ghauchicago/.
Help Global Health Alliance fundraise for our nonprofit partner, Development Initiative Network (DIN) Malawi, and their initiative aiming to end child marriage and gender-based violence in the Chikwawa district of Malawi!
We are Global Health Alliance at the University of Chicago, a student-run organization that, among other things, works very closely with our global partner organization, DIN Malawi. It's our mission as students to support DIN in every way that we can--academically, through volunteering, financially, and through friendship.
Over the past few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to massive school closures in Malawi. In the past, schools have been essential in keeping children and teens busy and reducing rates of child marriages and early pregnancies.
Not only have these school closures caused child marriages to begin rising at an alarming rate, but several days ago, it came to light that an 11 year old girl was defiled in Malawi's N'chalo district, followed by dozens more cases of child rape reported across the country in the following days. This has incited national fury and outrage, as well as the launching of new anti-sexual assault and anti-child marriage initiatives.
In response, DIN Malawi has chosen to launch a new community-wide initiative, Girl's Voice Amplifier, with the goal of ending child marriage and gender-based violence in Malawi's Chikwawa district.
Girls' Voice Amplifier would involve a holistic approach that aims to empower girls at risk for child marriage through information and support networks, as well as working with the girls' teachers and guardians to keep their education accessible and shift community attitudes about child marriage.
In order to launch this new initiative within the next month, DIN Malawi must fundraise its budget of $5,500 in the next few weeks. Please help Global Health Alliance in our mission to raise as much money as possible in the name of the victims and make DIN Malawi's goal a reality.
Thank you!
After you donate, please be sure share this campaign with your families, friends, colleagues, and others!
You can donate in other ways below:
Venmo: gha_uc
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Development Initiative Network (DIN Malawi) is a local non-profit organization currently working in the Lower Shire southern region of Malawi. DIN Malawi was established in February 2012 to respond to the needs and challenges affecting vulnerable communities in Chikwawa and Nsanje.
To read more about DIN and their work, please visit https://dinmlw.wordpress.com/.
Global Health Alliance is an equity-focused RSO that engages with community health in three ways: supporting a grassroots partner overseas, supporting a grassroots partner in Chicago, and educating the University of Chicago campus.
To connect with GHA and read more about our mission, please visit https://www.facebook.com/ghauchicago/.
Fundraising team (3)
Nikki Kasal
Organizer
Chicago, IL
Dillan Prasad
Beneficiary
Uma Balachandran
Team member
