#girls

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Mela for Her

Mela, whose name means 'solution' in Amharic, employs Ethiopian women to handcraft reusable pads and period underwear and sells them door to door through 179 women agents.

🇪🇨 Ecuador · Unión de Afectados y Afectadas por las Operaciones Petroleras de Texaco (UDAPT)

Nine girls from Ecuador's oil country won a 2021 court order to shut down the open gas flares burning beside their homes, and five years on they are still fighting to make the state obey.

🇦🇹 Austria · Verein Amazone

Amazone runs Vorarlberg's dedicated girls' center and free counseling line for girls, young women and gender-diverse youth aged 10 to 25, at a time when demand for support keeps climbing.

🇺🇸 United States · Black Girls Dive Foundation

A Maryland-founded nonprofit certifies Black middle and high school girls as scuba divers and trains them as marine science and conservation leaders.

🇮🇩 Indonesia · Bye Bye Plastic Bags

Two Balinese sisters turned a school project into a global youth movement that helped ban single-use plastic bags across Bali.

🌍 Global · CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education)

Young African women who once relied on CAMFED scholarships to finish school now lead a UN award-winning movement teaching climate-smart farming to rural communities.

🇮🇩 Indonesia · Coral Catch (Yayasan Gili Matra Bersama)

Indonesia's first all-female coral restoration program trains young local women as reef scientists and divers on the Gili Islands.

🇰🇭 Cambodia · Water For Cambodia

Water For Cambodia's Siem Reap team has built or renovated over 2,500 latrines, and in 2025 gave seven schools girl-friendly toilets with bins, locks and emergency period kits.

🇯🇲 Jamaica · HerFlow Foundation

A Jamaican foundation that started by supplying three schools now reaches more than 300 schools, government homes and clinics with free period products and period education.

🇷🇼 Rwanda · Kosmotive

Kosmotive, founded in Kigali in 2014, sews reusable KosmoPads that its site says have prevented 7,200 tons of plastic waste.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Moving the Goalposts Kilifi (MTGK)

Moving the Goalposts trains girls across Kenya's coast as football players, coaches and referees, pairing the game with reproductive health education and leadership training.

🇳🇬 Nigeria · Pad-Up Creations

A factory in Minna, Niger State, stitches washable period kits that women sales agents now carry to 21 African countries.

🇮🇳 India · Kiran Nidhi Sansthan

A Rajasthan village plants 111 trees every time a girl is born, turning the celebration of daughters into two decades of large-scale reforestation.

🇵🇱 Poland · Fundacja Akcja Menstruacja

A foundation from Lubin stocks free menstrual product boxes in school toilets, and its schools programme now covers 1,044 schools across Poland.

🇭🇳 Honduras · Roatan Marine Park

A community-founded patrol and restoration crew guards the reefs of Roatan and the rest of Honduras's largest marine protected area.

🇰🇪 Kenya · International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)

Kenya's first all-women ranger unit, made up of young Maasai women, patrols the wildlife corridor between Amboseli and Tsavo to stop poaching and defuse human-elephant conflict.

🇲🇼 Malawi · Theatre for a Change

Interactive drama is helping Malawian teachers and girls take control of their sexual and reproductive health in a country where a third of girls are pregnant by 18.

🇮🇳 India · Yuwa India

Yuwa fields girls' football teams and runs a free school in rural Jharkhand, using the game to keep girls in the classroom and out of child marriage.

🇦🇹 Austria · fairplay Initiative (VIDC)

Since the 1997 European Year Against Racism, fairplay has used football pitches across Austria as classrooms for fighting racism, sexism and discrimination in sport.