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Speak Up for the Poor is delighted and honored to have been awarded a grant of $50,000 from Together Women Rise (RISE), toward our Girls Health and Safety Program.

Here are five skills that every Bengali needs to be more independent and live life boldly.

63 of the 69 young women across our GEP who recently took their comprehensive exams after 12th grade received passing marks, and graduated from high school! This 91% success rate exceeds the Bangladesh national rate.

We are happy to report that in one of the villages in which our Girls Education Program has been operating, there were no child marriages at all throughout all of the past year!

Speak Up is proud to have earned a 2023 Platinum Seal of Transparency from the non-profit database Candid (formerly known as Guidestar).

We are happy to announce that Speak Up has been awarded a grant from the ASEA Advancing Life Foundation. This grant will help fund the expansion of our college women's dormitory in Khulna city.

We are happy to announce that Speak Up has been awarded a grant from the BNI Foundation. This grant has funded the construction of a brand new Learning Center (school house) in Kashipur village – one of the 35 villages and urban communities in which our Girls Education Program (GEP) operates in Bangladesh.

Speak Up is proud to have earned a 2022 Platinum Seal of Transparency from the non-profit database Candid (formerly known as Guidestar).

This month, hundreds of GEP girls received new backpacks to carry their books and school supplies.

Fourteen young women who have been students in our GEP are now part-time teachers or teaching assistants in the GEP!

Pictured are seven of our second-year nursing students, returning to their nursing school classes last week after a ten-month pandemic shutdown. GEP girls are determined to press on through the challenges of the pandemic, and keep making progress toward their dreams.

We are happy to announce that Speak Up has been awarded a grant from the Catherine Bertini Trust Fund for Girls’ Education. This grant will fund community meetings for parents and family members of girls who are eligible to join our GEP.

We are happy to announce that Speak Up has been awarded a grant from Dining for Women, to fund the implementation of our Girls Health and Safety Program in 2021.

While our biggest project is in Bangladesh, we also support young women in both Cambodia and Lebanon to stay in school. Once or twice a year we have the opportunity to visit the 8 young women we sponsor to stay in university in Cambodia.

Meet our 2019 class of interns in Bangladesh, young women who are changing their country.