PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL Thursday, 30 January 2014, GENEVA Accelerating Progress for Women and their Communities CONTENT P.2 THE WOMANITY FOUNDATION P.3 GALA COMMITTEE MEMBERS P.4 - 7 THE PROGRAMMES P.8 THE WOMANITY AWARD P.9 COncept 2014 P.10 SPOnsOrsHIP PACKAGES P.11 CONTACT EV ENT HISTORY AND TRACK RecoRD OF AchIEVEMENTS P.13 - 16 GALA 2012 P.17 - 19 GALA 2010 P.20 LADIES’ LUNCH 2009 P.21 - 23 Gala 2008 P.24 LADIES’ LUNCH 2007 P.25 - 27 Gala 2006 THE WOMANITY Tens of thousands of girls and women benefit from the programs we presently run in Afghanistan, Brazil, India, Israel, Morocco FOUNDATION and the Palestinian territories. Our projects aim to: - promote quality education for girls and vocational training, Guided by our vision to career opportunities and income prospects for women. contribute to a world - boost women’s voices in society, politics where all women and men and governance institutions. - protect women and girl’s physical and psychological integrity. have equal and full social, economic and political We develop projects that encourage innovative, scalable and replicable participation, the Womanity ideas with social entrepreneurs or local organisations. Foundation works to empower girls and women We foster lasting systemic change. around the world. The Womanity Foundation (formerly the Smiling Children Foundation) is an independent private foundation established in 2005 and registered in Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. www.womanity.org All the benefits from the 2014 Gala will be entirely allocated to Womanity’s field-based programmes 2 GALA coMMITTEE MEMBERS Charlotte Afflelou Ariella Arcaini Nathalie Botros Britta Carpigo Amandine Demole Roba El Farouki Julia El Zaouk Olivia Flanagan Ellie Fryer Diana Kawkabani Iliyas Khrapunov Rosie Kidston Suely Minkoff Megan Paterson-Brown Sumru Ramsey Amanda Ronson Versha Rea Alexis Sautereau Claire-Anne Stroll Ziad Tabet Karine Tamari Mia Tamari Cathie Weir Vivien Yakopin All the benefits from the 2014 Gala will be entirely allocated to Womanity’s field-based programmes 3 WON ME CHAngeMAKERS SPTUP OR ING OUTSTANDING SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS TO SCALE UP THEIR EFFORTS FOR WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT IN BRAZIL AND INDIA WomenChangeMakers (WCM) focuses on identifying, supporting and connecting social entrepreneurs who head established, successful organizations that work for women’s empowerment, address systemic gender inequalities and positively transform society. Over a period of 3 years, we help identified Fellows to develop their organisation and expand their reach, so as to increase the impact of their work and to accelerate positive change for women. In August 2011, the first Fellow was selected in Brazil: Alice Freitas, founder and CEO of Rede Asta. Alice Freitas helps women artisans from the poorest sections of Brazilian society by training them to design and “Womanity Foundation’s support in the areas of business produce handicrafts; providing them with business skills and giving them development, fundraising, human resources, communication, access to the market. monitoring and evaluation, and legal services will help Educate Girls scale up its work from 5,000 to 15,000 schools in the next 18 In April 2012, the Selection Panel identified the first Indian WCM Fellow, months.” Ms. Safeena Husain, founder and CEO of Educate Girls. By involving Safeena Husain, founder and CEO of Educate Girls communities and fostering local support to girls’ education, she works . on improving school attendance and performance of girls in the State of Rajasthan, which rates poorly in girls’ education. The WomenChangeMakers’ model was inspired by Ashoka’s experience For more information, visit the website of the program: and developed with Ashoka Fellows’ and staff’s expert inputs. www.womenchangemakers.org All the benefits from the 2014 Gala will be entirely allocated to Womanity’s field-based programmes 4 SchooL IN A BOX AD “VANCING GIRLS’ EDUCATION IN A”FGHANISTAN Since 2007, the Womanity Foundation has supported Afghanistan’s largest girls’ school – the Al Fatah School in Kabul – to become a model of excellence in girls’ education (infrastructure improvements and training). Based on this experience, the innovative “School in a Box” program was launched in 2011 with the support of the UBS Optimus Foundation and in partnership with Afghanistan Libre. This program prepares 11 schools for girls (2011 to 2014) to become models for girls’ public education. Meanwhile support for the Al Fatah School continues. The “School in a Box” program organized in 2012 teachers’ training modules in English, Dari and Pashto languages, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and information and communication technologies. With our partner, Afghanistan Libre, we run tutoring classes for the National Entry Exam to University; we organized sessions to sensitize the population to the importance of girls’ education. “As program director of the “School in a Box – Afghanistan”, but also This effort is already benefiting 7,450 Afghan girls (and 2,550 boys) as a father, I recognize the importance of girls’ education that was aged 6 to 18 studying at the first 6 participating schools in Kabul, so long neglected in our country. When women receive an education, Paghman district and Punjshir province. Meanwhile, 384 teachers and they contribute largely to prosperity.” staff are receiving tailored training to improve their competences. Plans are being made to reach 6 more girls’ schools by 2014. Mohammad Zia Noori, program director of Womanity Afghanistan. All the benefits from the 2014 Gala will be entirely allocated to Womanity’s field-based programmes 5 5 R ADIO NISAA FM T HE FIRST COMMERCIAL WOMEN’S RADIO IN THE MIDDLE EAST The Womanity Foundation, in partnership with Radio NISAA Broadcasting Company, established NISAA FM, the first commercial women’s radio station and website managed by women in the Middle East, in late 2009. See www.radionisaa.net NISAA FM caters to millions of men and women across generations, social statuses and geographic distances by offering a platform of cultural and social information, discussion and entertainment, and by voicing women’s aspirations and opinions. It is presently broadcasting online, on FM in the Palestinian territories and will be replicated in Egypt “Today, 96 NISAA FM is considered the 5th radio station in the soon. Central West Bank. We give visibility to women, we raise issues linked to women’s lives and propose solutions and inspiring ideas. NISAA and Womanity have commissioned the production of a radio Recently, we were the only radio station that interviewed women fiction series, where the role and rights of women in Arabic societies will candidates to the municipal elections.” be the main theme. Mona Zaki, the number one film star in the Arabic world, will play the lead role. The first season is due to be launched in Maysoun Odeh Gangat, managing director of NISAA FM. July 2013. All the benefits from the 2014 Gala will be entirely allocated to Womanity’s field-based programmes 6 “TLIT LE MAIDS” PROGRAM EAI R D CATE GIRLS’ labOUR IN MOROccO Since 2007, the Womanity Foundation has been collaborating with INSAF, a Moroccan NGO, in the fight against the exploitation of little girls from poor rural areas. The project facilitates the return of girls between the ages of 6 and 12, who are exploited as maids, to their family and to school. The girls receive support until the end of their mandatory school years. Wherever possible, the project facilitates their access to secondary education. To date, nearly 200 young girls have been removed from the hard life of domestic labour, re-integrated into their family and enrolled in school. Through our local partner, INSAF, we also advocate to eradicate girls’ labour throughout the country. “ My entering to college is the most positive thing that happened to me in 2009 because it gave me hope for a better future.” Saadia, 15 years, former ’little maid’. All the benefits from the 2014 Gala will be entirely allocated to Womanity’s field-based programmes 7 I f the world were scaled to a village of 1000 people, it would look like the following: TEH WOMANITY AwARD - 500 people are women BRG IN ING AN END TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN It should be 510, but 10 were never born due to gender-selective abortion or died in infancy due to neglect (son preference) Based on this observation, Womanity created the Womanity Award, - 167 of the women will be beaten or in some which addresses violence aganst women by identifying innovative and way exposed to violence in their lifetime effective ways to reduce reduce such violence, and by increasing their - 100 of the women will be victims of rape or impact through their adaptation and replication in other contexts. attempted rape in their lifetime The Award will be launched in the course of 2014 All the benefits from the 2014 Gala will be entirely allocated to Womanity’s field-based programmes 8 The 2014 Womanity Gala theme is the exciting contrast between Fire & Ice. Guests will experience a timeless atmosphere that is both alight and freezing, in constant motion, filled with the warmth of light and chilling beauty. This startling and magical mood prompts guests to reflect on the wonders of our world, where misery and gloom can be overwhelmed by courage and creativity - the sources of inspiration for Womanity. The location is a unique, contemporary, high tech building, the ‘Espace Hippomene’, on TEH CONCEPT 2014 one of Geneva’s historic industrial sites close to down-town. The venue will be transformed into a marvelous world of natural elements that are Fire FIRE & ICE & Ice - two extremes inspiring contrasting emotions. The atmosphere will be created by using state of the art lighting technology, natural fire flames and fake and real ice elements. The venue will be divided into two carefully constructed spaces: the cocktail area and the Date: Thursday, 30 January 2014 at the Espace dining/entertainment hall.