Keep Girls Safe, Free and Fed
The lack of basic needs - shelter, food, water - is a major factor in girls being trafficked or forced into child marriage. This year, we are choosing to focus on these simple, foundational needs, girls and families are struggling even more than usual.
Heads up, we’re about to ask you to open your hearts and your wallets! While we always enjoy crafting creative, heartfelt holiday campaigns to share with you and your loved ones, this year we’re keeping it basic - and we want to share why.
In June, we visited an elementary school in rural Kenya where we have been offering human rights education and counseling to prevent exploitation. The buildings were simple - dusty, concrete structures that managed to hold nearly 800 eager students a day. Shared smiles and waves warmed our hearts. Yet beneath those bright faces was a hard truth: many of these children attend school each day without sufficient food. We asked ourselves, how can we expect girls to learn, or even to stay in school, when they are too hungry to concentrate?
One of the blessings of being a small nonprofit is that when we see a need, we can act quickly. Working hand in hand with our local partners, we created a food program and today, all students receive one nutritious meal every school day.
Without food, water, or safe shelter, girls are far more vulnerable to trafficking, child marriage, and exploitation. Hunger and poverty often drive desperate choices. As girls and their families are struggling even more than usual, this holiday season we are choosing to focus on providing basic needs - the foundation of freedom and safety for girls in India, Nepal and Kenya.
Together with you - our community of love - HFC continues to be a safety net for survivors and for girls at risk. Your generosity makes it possible for us to respond swiftly, meet urgent needs, and give every girl the chance to live, learn, and thrive.
Let’s not let Dawa, Joy, Elinah’s daughters, Payel, or any of the 2500 girls in HFC’s care live in fear for their future due to a lack of food or a safe place to grow up. Our ask is simple, please can you give to support women and girls?
This holiday season we need to raise $200,000 to provide a year of:
- Quality Shelter for 750 survivors and high risk girls
- Nutritious Daily Food for 1500 children
- New Water & Sanitation facilities (toilets) serving 400 girls - at a shelter in Kenya, at the Freedom School, and at our newest Resource Center in a red light area of Kolkata. Sanitation is not glamorous, we know, but it is very much needed!
- And of course, Education and Empowerment programs for 2500 women & children
These simple gifts change everything. They keep girls free — and transform their futures.
Her Future Coalition is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN: 37-1497985). Your donation is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.