Our Impact

A snapshot of just some of the women's and girls' lives we've touched.
 

With their collective investments, DFW members have:

•  Helped hundreds of girls escape sex trafficking and receive safe havens, counseling, and education in the Philippines, India, and Cambodia
•  Dramatically reduced maternal and infant deaths by providing sterile birth kits and trained obstetric workers to hundreds of women in remote Tibetan villages.  
•  Trained dozens of healthcare workers in El Salvador to detect and treat cervical cancer with an innovative, low-tech method. Cervical cancer is the #1 cancer killer of women in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
•  Funded teachers, social workers, students, and expanded a Kenyan girl-led school and its women's empowerment programs.
•  Launched 60 female-led businesses, boosting the incomes and livelihoods of 300 women and about 1,500 children in drought-stricken Kenya
•  Financed one year of adult literacy education, teachers' salaries, and books and supplies for 75 women in India.
•  Helped train more than 500 rural and indigenous Guatemalan women to harvest and propagate the Maya Nut, equipping them with the means to earn income, feed their children, and to protect the rain forests.
•  Supported a women's crafts cooperative for Afghan women, who normally have few markets or opportunities to work.