Ascend Athletics is a global not-for-profit organization working in Afghanistan to empower young women through mountaineering-based leadership training. Recipients of a 2021 FAWCO Foundation Development Grant to create health materials for their target population of young women and their families, Ascend pivoted in August 2021 to assist its participants and their families in fleeing...
The thought, the very idea, that we could have a future without the staggering number of deaths from cancer (in 2020 approx. 10,000,000) seems impossible – but is it? We live in a time of amazing advancements in the care of cancer patients and more importantly, in the...
Typically, the Education Team focuses its energies on shining a spotlight on efforts, concerns and victories in underserved communities outside of the United States. However, with so much attention recently on the Black Lives Matter movement, the confusion over critical race theory, the disenfranchisement of Black voters through redistricting and restrictive voting practices...
The 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) or COP26 was held in Glasgow, Scotland from October 31–
November 12, 2021. FAWCO has Observer status at the UNFCCC and can register delegates to attend all COPs and the smaller mid-year UN climate meetings that take place in Bonn. FAWCO...
One of the objectives of S.A.F.E., FAWCO’s current Target Project, is to “Empower five local communities to adopt positive social norms which uphold the human rights and health of all community members through community sensitization and public declarations against female genital mutilation (FGM) by respected community leaders during two annual Alternative Rites of Passage (ARP) ceremonies over the two years...
Happy Thanksgiving from the Health Team!
Thanksgiving is intentional, whether it be the holiday food that is prepared for family and friends or the state of mind we cultivate that produces tangible emotional “fruit” in our lives. Either way, we decide the kind of feast we want to eat and how we want to share...