Global Grassroots is a 501(c)(3) non-profit supporting conscious social change. The programs are "driven by and for vulnerable women at the grassroots level."
The UN estimates that between 250,000 and 500,000 women were sexually assaulted during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. According to Amnesty International, 67 percent of these women, most left widowed by the conflict, contracted HIV. Post-conflict, women are often left alone as widows to assume the traditional roles of men in rebuilding their lives, while taking care of their own children and even the orphans of their neighbors. Focused on daily survival, they are frequently unable to attend to their own emotional and physical rehabilitation needs.
Global Grassroots helps women address mind-body trauma healing, social venture development skills, leadership training, personal transformation practices, and initiating their own civil society organizations. Often primary caregivers, women have the power to impact their children's, neighbors', and ultimately, their communities lives for good. Global Grassroots provides the platform and tools for women to remake their world.
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