Working with hurricane displaced communities in the Guatemalan Highlands showed me how women's lives are negatively impacted without access to education, health care, financial resources, and so on. I now have a degree in Women's Studies and spend my time working on promoting gender equality and empowering women in all areas.
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• Of the world’s 1 billion poorest people, three fifths are women and girls.
• Of the 960 million adults in the world who cannot read, two thirds are women.
• 70% of the 130 million children who are out of school are girls.
• Up to 50% of ALL adult women have experienced violence at the hands of their intimate partners.
• Each year, half a million women DIE and 10 to 15 million suffer chronic disability from preventable complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
UN data