Male role models important at the voluntary centre
At the ECD center in Kom Ombo young children get the opportunity to play and develop in a surrounding where equal gender roles are promoted.
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Summit and Award Ceremony cancelled
Due to the escalation of the Corona virus (COVID-19) outbreaks and international travel restrictions we have made the difficult decision to cancel the Global Change Award Summit and the Award Ceremony in Stockholm on 1 April 2020.
The importance of fathers
Growing up in an environment where violence is a form of discipline makes people believe that children must be “educated” by violence. This situation made Manuel to establish a child centre in 2010 which later was incorporated into one of Save the Children´s project.
Breaking taboos
Our project with PLAN Internation has reached more than 36,000 people, in the strive to change norms and break taboos around menstruation. It has pushed transformation towards a more equal society.
USD 100,000 to the Philippine Red Cross
H&M Foundation is giving emergency relief to help people in the Philippines who’s been affected by several natural disasters lately.
Development beyond disability
1.5-year old Valery in Peru was diagnosed with Down Syndrome at birth. Her family still remembers the insensitive way they were treated at the hospital. Thanks to our partner UNICEF, Valery’s parents got support and guidance to help her in the best way, and they also got to meet other families in the same situation.
1.7 million people reached by H&M Foundation during 2019
H&M Foundation’s Annual Report 2019 covers the work we have done together with our 23 partners within the focus areas Education, Water, Equality and Planet, during 2019, investing USD 15 million on improved living conditions and game changing innovation that can protect our planet.
Unfounded ltd – a startup to help close the financial gender gap
The world’s top 100 investors received an investment opportunity from Unfounded Ltd with the potential to unlock USD 330 billion in annual global revenue. The twist? The company might not be real, but the all the data and figures are – and so is the potential of women in business. Women make up half the world’s population, yet female-founded start-ups only get about 3% of global venture dollar volume. By not giving women entrepreneurs equal access to finance, investors keep missing out on what could become the new Apple Inc. or Amazon.com – every year.
“We’re creating a future together”
High up in the mountains of northern Sweden, 20-year old Zaher is on a hike with his friends and volunteers from the Swedish Red Cross. Walking long distances is nothing new to Zaher, who fled on his own from war-ridden Afghanistan three years ago.
Changed her destiny and now runs a successful business
Growing up in Ivory Coast, Yeo Nakoni was taken out of school at the age of 15 to support her parents on their farm. Her destiny was set. It could have stayed that way, if it wasn’t for her business minded mother-in-law. Today, the 51-year old grows and sells her own vegetables and can afford to send her children to school.
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