{"id":4326,"date":"2020-03-04T08:36:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T08:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2020-03-09T13:38:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T13:38:06","slug":"care-canada-and-the-slaight-family-f-in-partnership-for-women-and-girls-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/03\/04\/care-canada-and-the-slaight-family-f-in-partnership-for-women-and-girls-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"CARE Canada and the Slaight Family F. in partnership for women and girls in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>OTTAWA &#8212;<\/strong>\u00a0The Slaight Family Foundation will launch a $15 M Global Initiative for Women and Girls which will be donated to 15 international organizations around the world to mark International Women\u2019s Day. The Initiative will improve the lives of women and girls in developing countries around the world. CARE Canada will partner with The Slaight Family Foundation in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Slaight Family Foundation will support CARE Canada\u2019s work in Somalia to innovate and improve menstrual hygiene management for school-age girls, many of whom have experienced female genital mutilation. The donation will help to develop and test new solutions with established women and girls\u2019 groups, train women to produce hygiene products locally, improve school sanitation facilities, and increase community awareness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe aim of this gift is to improve conditions for women and girls living in difficult circumstances, who represent some of the world\u2019s most vulnerable populations,\u201d said Gary Slaight of The Slaight Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe projects we are funding will leverage the expertise of these vital organizations to protect women and girls in the most fragile countries from direct harm, rebuild the lives of those who have been unjustly affected by conflict, deprivation, and disease and give them the tools and support they need to survive and thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Slaight Family Foundation&#8217;s crucial investment in innovative solutions for managing menstrual hygiene in #Somalia will transform the lives of girls in these communities, removing a key barrier to education, participation and leadership and unlocking their potential,&#8221; said Jessie Thomson, CARE Canada\u2019s Vice President of International Programs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: CARE\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212;\u00a0The Slaight Family Foundation will launch a $15 M Global Initiative for Women and Girls which will be donated to 15 international organizations around the world to mark International Women\u2019s Day. The Initiative will improve the lives of women and girls in developing countries around the world. CARE Canada will partner with The Slaight &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-protection-cluster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4337,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions\/4337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}