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Shegitu, a health extension worker trained by the EPHA, facilitates a conversation on family planning at Buture Health Post | Maheder Haileselassie Tadese/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment Around the world, health advocates, care providers, and researchers are working to expand access to quality contraception and safe abortion because they understand that the ability to choose whether … Continued
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Growing up in Côte d’Ivoire, Fanta Touré remembers feeling troubled by the inequality she saw in her community. She was able to go to school and questioned why other girls her age could not. Fanta’s upbringing and passion for equality drove her to create substantive change in communities like the one she grew up in. … Continued
Advocates. Educators. Entrepreneurs. Health care providers. Community leaders. Women are tackling the world’s toughest problems with fierceness and fortitude, at times putting their bodies and safety at risk, to make positive change and push for a more equitable world. This International Women’s Day, we celebrate women’s social, economic, cultural, and political achievements and honor their … Continued
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Today, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Getty Images released more than 150 high-quality editorial images celebrating the power and vibrancy of women and youth in Rwanda. As part of the Images of Empowerment collection, these new images are available free of charge for non-commercial use. The new Rwanda collection of photographs can be … Continued
As individuals around the world celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, they can use powerful, positive photographs from Getty Images that show women’s lives and their work in eleven countries. The newly expanded Images of Empowerment collection, created by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, features 2,000 … Continued
Every woman and girl—no matter where she lives in the world—has the right to live with dignity and have a voice in decisions that affect her body and her life.
Tamara Kreinin will join the Foundation as Program Director for the Foundation’s Population and Reproductive Health Program in July 2012. In this role, Kreinin will lead the Foundation’s grantmaking to slow population growth in high-fertility areas and to ensure individual reproductive health and rights to improve the quality of life. Currently, the Packard Foundation is … Continued
