For Mayan, 65, who was kidnapped by ISIS, returning home to Sinjar after years of displacement meant rebuilding her family’s livestock business from scratch. With the support of the AHP Building Peaceful Futures response in Iraq, her business and life is back on track.
Read MoreFor three Rohingya sisters living with hearing and speech disabilities, the Women and Girls Safe Space in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, has opened up new social, learning and creative opportunities.
Read MoreReading and writing are skills that many of us take for granted. But for Nadia, 50, a lack of schooling meant she struggled to move around her community or use a phone to call her children. Literacy classes for women supported by AHP have boosted her confidence and created new friendships.
Read MoreFor 15-year-old Sathi, winning a prize in a primary school football competition ignited her dreams of becoming a famous player. But Sathi lives in a remote village in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, where football is considered a boys' game. Through an AHP-supported youth club, Sathi found a way to create her own team.
Read MoreFor Rebeya Begum and other women in her village in Bangladesh, bathing was a cause of daily worries and waits. After receiving support from AHP partners to build a better bathing facility, women and girls feel safer and more confident.
Read MoreIn Teknaf, Bangladesh, adolescent boys and girls are usually not allowed to learn together or socialise. But an AHP-supported youth club is challenging gender stereotypes while increasing access to education.
Read MoreDrawing on the theory that a little ‘nudge’ can lead to big change, AHP partners in Bangladesh are supporting Rohingya women’s livelihoods and food security, and in the process, boosting their self-reliance.
Read MoreWomen and girls in displaced persons camps in Rakhine state, Myanmar, face many barriers to education and employment. Through the AHP Education in Emergencies response, women and girls are being encouraged into the classroom as both students and teachers.
Read MoreAHP-supported psychosocial support and skill development programs for Rohingya women, including those with disabilities, in Cox’s Bazar are aiming to reduce gender-based violence and increase independence.
Read MoreWomen leaders in Vanuatu mobilised within 24 hours to support government COVID-19 outreach efforts in their communities.
Read MoreThe Building Peaceful Futures program is a consortium of leading NGOs working in Sinjar and Hawija — areas hit hardest by IS — to help families transition home and rebuild their lives. The program supports women and girls like Nadia who were targeted and terrorised by IS. Gradually they are able to emerge from their deeply traumatic experience and lead the recovery process.
Read MoreWomen Friendly Spaces can provide women with much needed respite and support in humanitarian situations. However, community attitudes and suspicion must be sometimes overcome before some women can safely join.
In Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, CARE has been working to overcome some of these barriers for Rohingya refugees, ensuring the women have somewhere to gather, seek information and find refuge among each other.
Read MoreWomen and girls face unique challenges following a disaster. An Indonesian volunteer shares her observations following the 2018 earthquake and tsunami in Sulawesi.
Read MoreFatima wasn’t always a refugee. Five years after being forced to leave the life she once knew, Fatima talks about her memories of those left behind in Syria and a future with limited work options in Jordan’s Za’atari refugee camp.
Read MoreIn 2017, Caritas Australia received $2 million through the AHP for their Jordan education program.
Read MoreIn 2017, Plan International Australia received $500,000 through the AHP for their Nepal floods response.
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