Thousands of girls are given in child marriage every day. Child marriage ends a girl’s education, perpetuates female poverty and female inequality, and threatens girls’ health, safety, and wellbeing. Poverty is one of the biggest drivers of child marriage and other exploitation of vulnerable girls.

Speak Up defends impoverished girls in Bangladesh who are vulnerable to child marriage and other exploitation. Our Girls Education Program (GEP) empowers girls and young women to stay out of child marriages, and to stay in school all the way through college graduation. Through the GEP, girls and young women are becoming educated, empowered professionals dedicated to serving their communities. The GEP is changing individual lives, elevating the status and wellbeing of girls and women, and transforming whole communities.

The GEP continues to grow in size and strength, with more than 2,000 girls and young women in 36 villages and urban slum communities now involved and receiving tutoring, school supplies and academic and career guidance.

Please join us as a $40 monthly sponsor today. Together, we can change another girl’s life and future!

 Partners

We are honored to partner with the following organizations:

New Grant Award in 2023, from Together Women Rise

Speak Up for the Poor is honored and delighted to have been awarded a grant of $50,000 from Together Women Rise toward our Girls Health and Safety Program. Speak Up will be Together Women Rise’s Featured Grantee in December, 2023, and the grant award will fund our Girls Health and Safety Program throughout 2024.

“Together Women Rise is a powerful community of women and allies dedicated to global gender equality. We have hundreds of local chapters across the US. Members come together to learn about and advocate for gender equality issues, give grants to organizations that empower women and girls in low-income countries, and build community to forge meaningful connections that increase our strength and collective impact.”

This is Speak Up’s second grant award from Together Women Rise. We also received a grant of $26,000 in 2021, when Together Women Rise was known as Dining for Women. The 2021 grant funded our Girls Health and Safety Program during the Covid pandemic, and benefitted every girl in Speak Up’s Girls Education Program (GEP). We have built a solid relationship with Together Women Rise, and are delighted to have been awarded a second grant from them.

To view Speak Up for the Poor’s Featured Grantee profile on the Together Women Rise website, please click here.

We are also honored to partner with the following organizations:

Your generous support will catalyze the work of justice.

Speak Up exists to transform the world on behalf of the poor, particularly girls in poverty. We are currently defending and empowering more than 2,000 girls and young women in 36 villages and urban areas, helping them stay in school and out of child marriage, and providing school fees, books and materials, and daily tutoring, mentoring, and grade-level specific training in health, safety, life skills, and professional skills.

Our work expands as our sponsor base grows. Your donation or sponsorship will allow us to reach even more girls in poverty in Bangladesh.

Thank you for your generous support!

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