Half the Sky, part 2: the links

Here are just a few links I checked out and found interesting/worthwhile. There are tons more, and I'm sure ALL the organizations they've linked to are great organizations; these just happened to be the ones I liked. http://www.kiva.org/ - pairs willing donors with individual women who want/need microloans to start businesses http://www.apneaap.org/ - fights sex trafficking in India http://www.amddprogram.org/ - Averting Maternal Death & Disability (geared more toward governmental and policy nerds) http://www.care.org/ - meets multiple humanitarian needs, and has increased its focus on women and girls recently http://www.ednahospital.org/ - a hospital in Somaliland (breakaway republic from Somalia) that provides maternity and gynecological care http://www.fistulafoundation.org/ - working to improve access to fistula repair in parts of the world where it's common, as well as working to solve its root causes http://www.healafrica.org/ - dedicated to helping women heal physically and emotionally from fistula as well as rape as a weapon of war http://www.ijm.org/ - International Justice Mission, a Christian faith-based organization that fights international sex trafficking http://www.newlightindia.org/ - organization from Kolkata (Calcutta), India, that assists prostitutes and their children with their nutrition, shelter, and healthcare needs (among other things) http://www.penniesforpeace.org/ - founded by Greg Mortenson as a fundraiser to buy education and school supplies for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan http://www.tostan.org/ - 'tostan' apparently means 'breakthrough' in Wolof; this organization has worked within African communities to end female genital cutting http://www.whiteribbonalliance.org/ - international organization whose goal is to make pregnancy, birth, and the neonatal period safe for women and babies worldwide Most of these are not 'faith-based' as such, but people of faith will likely still find them worthwhile.