In the outskirts of Antigua, Guatemala, young girls and women in Suchitepéquez fight against poverty and limited opportunities, supported by THEMSTORY’s efforts to provide education, clean water, and hope for a better future. This is a call to action to empower their resilience and help break the cycle of hardship.

I haven't visited this extra ordinary foundation yet, but it is on my list for 2025 and I will give you even more insights afterwards. The mission of Dhammajarinee Witthaya School in Thainland is powerful: Provide a safe home and quality education, kindergarten to grade 12, for underserved girls in Thailand—helping break the cycle of poverty and a lack of opportunity.

MAIA is an organization led by Indigenous women for Indigenous girls. MAIA is an educational organization in Guatemala that breaks cycles of poverty, discrimination, and injustice through the education and empowerment of Indigenous girls. At MAIA, they connect talent with opportunity, maximizing the potential of these young women to lead transformational change in their lives, families, and communities. One of their main programs is the MAIA Impact School, Central America’s first secondary school specifically designed to connect the talents of rural Indigenous young women with the opportunities of the 21st century.

During my travels through Morocco I came across HAF, a female empowerment foundation based in Marrakech. Their Female Empowerment Workshop enables participants to create the life they most want. HAF aims to strengthen women as rights holders by providing tools to advocate and act on their needs and goals. Key areas of their workshop is emotions, relationships, sexuality, body, money, work and discovery. Read more here.‍

PSYDEH [see-day] is a majority-women-led Mexican grassroots non-profit organization investing in rural and Indigenous women as local leaders to propel social and economic development in their communities. Read more here.

Fondo Semillas is a feminist fund in Mexico that believes in the transformative power of organized girls, women, trans* and intersex people. Supporting and accompanying their journey to build fairer, freer and happier realities for them and their surroundings is their reason for existing.