FEMINIST HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE  WITH AND FOR GIRLS AND YOUNG FEMINISTS!

The Global Resilience Fund is a collaborative feminist fund working with and for girls and young feminists responding to crises.

$3 Million+
USD

LEVERAGED TO RESOURCE CRISIS RESPONSE EFFORTS

320 +

GIRL AND YOUNG FEMINIST-LED GROUPS RESOURCED

120 +

COUNTRIES
REACHED

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FROM PALESTINE TO PAKISTAN, HAITI TO UKRAINE, SYRIA TO SIERRA LEONE, GIRLS AND YOUNG FEMINISTS BEAR THE IMPACT OF CRISES WHILE LEADING THE FRONTLINE RESPONSE EFFORTS.

Despite grappling with unimaginable suffering, girls and young feminists courageously respond to their communities' urgent needs, constructing alternative systems and structures. Unfortunately, the humanitarian sector continues to ignore and overlook their unique needs and solutions. The Global Resilience Fund is a collective response to this reality, urging funders to take collective action and reimagine what is possible when we support the transformative strategies and solutions of girls and young feminists responding to crises while tackling the systemic injustices that perpetuate them. 

CRISIS RESPONSE
FUNDING

Through a participatory approach, we distribute flexible rapid-response and long term  funding to girls and young feminists impacted by and responding to acute and protracted crises.

ACCOMPANIMENT AND
LEARNING

We provide support and referrals, as co-curate community spaces to support collaboration, build solidarity, and develop learning and advocacy resources with girls and young feminists responding to crises.

ORGANIZING AND
ADVOCACY

We develop learning and advocacy efforts with activists and funders to amplify the efforts of and move more and better funding to girls and young feminists responding to crises.

COLLABORATIVE FEMINIST
HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE IN ACTION

“After periods of crisis, we forget that these communities are left to themselves. In this sense, we accompanied more than 300 girls and women under the age of 25 for four months after the earthquake. Kits were distributed, workshops on sexual and reproductive health were conducted by our staff.”

MARIJÀN | Feminist Organization, Haiti

“We offer psychosocial support for most marginalized women and girls, we meet twice every month and share different experiences, what we have gone throughout in our lives, as activists, and how we can overcome them, and have wellness and collective care sessions, and it makes sense to work on our mental health. We have outreach where we go to communities and we talk to marginalized women and girls and keep them updated as to what their rights are, including legal rights.”

Feminist Initiative South Sudan, South Sudan

“Our main priority is humanitarian aid, and we have two main approaches to this work. Our first approach: we use our activist, feminist network in different cities to find ways to send help to the occupied territories. We have already sent large batches of medications, hygiene products, and baby food to Kherson, Berdyansk, and Zaporizhzhia region, 70% of which is occupied, to the frontline cities like Kramatorsk. We find the right people and build this logistical supply network.”

Feminist Lodge, Ukraine

News & Resources
Cover design from the report - Girls and Young Feminists at the forefront against Russia's Imperialist War in Ukraine.
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  • "Even though I have been supported by the humanitarian sector, I think that it is very inequitable and bureaucratic - creating obstacles for the most vulnerable people. It has to change these top-down ways of working as it is essential to support the people leading the social movements as they are the transforming agents."

    – Tania, Nicaragua

  • “The money is not coming directly to us, we are a grassroots organization that reaches the community, we know what the community is facing, we know what the women and the girls are facing, because we are in direct contact and have relationships with them. Most of the time the funding is going to international organizations who do not have access to communities. So, in most cases, the support does not reach the community.”

    - Fatma, South Sudan

  • “We know and believe that a new just reality is possible through feminist humanitarian response that is grounded in reciprocal understanding, bold actions, political will, and transformative solidarity.”

    - Sandie, Palestine

  • "Big mainstream channels tell about how many countries and organisations are helping us. At the same time, the work of grassroots initiatives is invisible."

    - Masha, Ukraine

Partners

The Global Resilience Fund is a partnership between social justice funders committed to resourcing girls and young feminists on the frontline of crisis response.​

Launched at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic by 20 founding partners, the Global Resilience Fund has continued to evolve and adapt over the last few years to meet the needs and realities faced by girls and young feminist responding to crisis.

Click here to learn more about the story behind the launch of the Fund.

Donate to the Fund!

We are urgently mobilising resources for the worlds most critical humanitarian crisis. All money donated from the public will go directly to girls and young women with no overhead fee. The Fund is administered by Purposeful, an international organisation with a track record of moving resources to young activists in more than 100 countries across the world. Purposeful is registered as a U.K. Charity and 501C(3) for tax Purposes.

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