Compulsory Inclusion of SOGIESC Within the Basic Education School Curriculum in KwaZulu-Natal

Fellow: Kim Lithgow Grant Year: 2020 Location: Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa Organization: Same Love Toti Project title: Compulsory Inclusion of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) Within the Basic Education School Curriculum in KwaZulu-Natal Project summary: Same Love Toti will create a safer, more receptive learning environment for LGBTI students in KwaZulu-Natal province by advocating with local schools to ensure they … Read More

2020 Rise Up Virtual Breakfast Gala

Rise Up welcomed allies, friends, and fellow supporters to its 2020 Virtual Breakfast Gala for a powerful celebration of visionary leaders rising up to improve the health, education, rights, and well-being of girls and women around the world. Click on the video directly below to watch the full Gala, or scroll through to watch our 2020 speakers individually.

ENGAGE Project Phases Out – Zodiak

ENGAGE Project Phases Out Zodiak | December 18, 2020 This article highlights the completion of the ENGAGE initiative after four years of empowering adolescent girls to increase their autonomy, advancing more gender-equitable social norms, and holding decision-makers accountable for ending child marriage in Malawi. Read the article here.

Empowerment of Girl-Child Critical to Socioeconomic Change: NGO – National Accord Newspaper

Empowerment of Girl-Child Critical to Socioeconomic Change: NGO National Accord Newspaper | November 9, 2020 Rise Up and our partner organization Action Health Incorporated were highlighted in the news for our Girls’ Voices Initiative, which supports girl leaders and their allies to raise their voices and effectively advocate for girls’ rights. Read the article here.

Reducing Gender-Based Violence to Help Girls Stay in School in Rural India

This case study shows how Rise Up Together Leader Tania Fernandes Echaporia is helping girls stay in school in rural India by working to reduce gender-based violence (GBV) against girls, which creates significant deterrents to attending school, undermining girls’ health, security, and dignity and preventing millions of girls from fulfilling their dreams. Click here to read the full case study.  … Read More

Amrita Gupta

Delhi, India Amrita is a social science researcher with over ten years of experience in qualitative and quantitative research, project management, and advocacy. Her research focuses include vulnerable communities, gender issues, and women’s and young people’s health across India. She has extensive experience using ethnography, focus group discussions, in-depth and key informant interviews and analytical tools. Amrita has Master’s  degrees … Read More

Amrita Thakur

Delhi, India Community Feminist Leadership Project, Jagori Amrita Thakur has been a journalist and an advocate for women’s issues for 15 years, working for many prestigious Hindi newspapers and magazines, as well as organizations like Jagori and Stree Mukti Sanghatana. In 2019, Amrita left journalism to focus full time on advocacy for women’s issues with Jagori where she now leads … Read More

Aparna Singh

Delhi, India Program Manager, Joining Hands  Aparna Singh is a social development professional who has worked with grassroots organizations for more than 20 years. In her current role with Joining Hands NGO, an organization focused on women’s and youth empowerment, she is responsible for overall program implementation. She has extensive experience in supporting vulnerable girls and women and advocating for … Read More

Avik Dey

Delhi, India Program Officer, Girls’ Education Program, India Country Office, Room to Read Avik has over nine years of experience working on children’s rights and gender programs for various national and international organizations. He is passionate about child rights and gender equality and believes that constructing spaces for experiential education is the most effective way to empower adolescent girls. He … Read More