How the Global Fund for Women is Responding to the Tsunami Disaster
It is 3 months since the Tsunami, and life in general goes on. Rehabilitation programs are very slow..........The delay in getting permanent houses is causing a lot of problems both health wise and psycho-social. There is a lot of sickness among these displaced people. The government has the problem of finding land for resettling people where villages have been washed away. There is a lot of frustration but slowly we see signs of progress.
-April 28, 2005 email from Pearl Stephen,
Director, Women's Development Centre, Sri Lanka

Immediately after the earthquake and tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean in December 2004, the Global Fund for Women reached out to all of our grantees in the affected regions from Asia to Africa. Since January 2005, the Global Fund has awarded $104,000 in tsunami relief to 15 women's organizations in India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka and Thailand. In the days and weeks following the tsunami, many of these groups provided basic and desperately needed relief to their communities in the form of food, water, medical supplies, and shelter. They are now working to ensure that women are included in longterm reconstruction processes and that the human rights of women are not ignored.

Global Fund Grantees in the Tsunami Region

Women's Rights Widely Abused in Asian Tsunami Zone

Relief WebIn a Bangkok forum to mark International Women's Day, Cholpon Akmatova, an officer of the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, a Global Fund grantee, expressed her organization's "deep concern with violations of women's human rights in the tsunami-affected countries."

Joint Statement from the Global Fund for Women and the Global Fund for Children

The Global Fund for Women and the Global Fund for Children are concerned about the disproportionate effects of the tsunami on women and children.

To Apply for a Grant:

Click here to read our letter to grantees.

Support Long-Term Rebuilding:

Click here if you wish to support the long-term rebuilding of women's rights organizations in the region. When you make an on-line donation, please mark "Asia Tsunami" in the section entitled "Would you like to make this contribution in honor of someone special?" On your donation form or check, please indicate "Asia Tsunami."

Emergency Relief Donations:

The Global Fund is not set up to provide broad disaster relief. If you wish to donate directly to an immediate relief organization, contact any of the groups listed below, or check your local or national newspaper:

  1. American Jewish World Service
    1-800-889-7146
  2. Islamic Relief USA
    1-888-479-4968
  3. UNICEF
    1-800-4-UNICEF
  4. Doctors Without Borders
  5. Global Greengrants
  6. Grantmakers Without Borders

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