A letter to our donors and supporters

Thank you very much for your immense generosity in supporting Pakistani women in great need. In the few weeks since the flood, we have raised nearly $100,000 to help our sisters in Pakistan. With your timely support, we have already provided several emergency grants to our grantee partners in Pakistan, and more grants are being approved as I write to you.

With the enormous need in Pakistan, the Global Fund for Women has sought to be both responsive and strategic with our grantmaking. We are funding organizations with the capacity to coordinate relief and advocacy efforts for women's leadership in reconstruction, as well as providing support to local, community-based grassroots organizations with the ability to reach the most remote and marginalized women. We are in the process of also providing support to women's groups working with Afghan women refugees.

The Global Fund for Women has received on-the-ground assessments from several grantee partners on the ongoing flood situation. It is a crisis of unimaginable proportions: one fifth of Pakistan is under water, and 20 million people, one in eight Pakistanis, have been affected.

With the support of the Global Fund's amazing network of supporters, the Crisis Fund raised over $250,000 for Haiti!

Thank you to everyone who made a special gift to the Crisis Fund in a demonstration of solidarity and support for the women and girls of Haiti, including the organizations, companies and foundations listed below:

by Erika Guevara Rosas, Program Director, Americas

Nearly six months after the earthquake killed 300,000, displaced more than 2 million, and destroyed much of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, reconstruction efforts have failed to ensure local women’s full participation and decision-making.