International Women’s Day
No One Stands Alone
Sponsor a Village Leader
March 8th is International Women’s Day. This is a great opportunity to raise awareness of issues of abuse and marginalisation encountered by thousands of women around the world. It is a platform for people to support our Community Village Leaders who work to combat abuse.
These brave women ensure abused women have access to healthcare, counselling and support, and are empowered to recover freedom, dignity and hope. Community Village Leaders also work to ensure vulnerable girls are protected from trafficking, and can live lives of opportunity and dreams.
*Please select your country to give and receive the correct tax receipt.
What is a Village Leader?
Village Leaders are women once trapped in exploitation, now trained and empowered, working in the very communities where they were abused to:
- Protect vulnerable girls
- Support women seeking freedom
- Prevent trafficking and abuse
- Advocate to end exploitation
$250 funds 1 Community Village Leader in 1 village for 1 year.
Just $250 supports a Community Village Leader for 1 year in 1 village.
This provides paid and respectable work to women who are recovering their dignity, and empowering them to help more vulnerable women. They also protect at-risk girls providing them with paths to a better future.
We currently have Village Leaders in 350 villages and need to continue to support them.
But we want to do more.
We want to reach into more villages so more women are set free, and more little girls protected. To do this, we need to raise more increments of $250.
*Please select your country to give and receive the correct tax receipt.
Host Your Own Women's Day Celebration
Each year, women like you celebrate International Women’s Day throughout March by gathering friends to support Village Leaders.
It's not too late to join in.
Supporters host everything from coffee mornings and curry nights to walks, and bake sales, raising both awareness and vital support that helps expand protection into more villages.
Some choose high teas, clothes swaps, craft mornings, and movie nights.
Invite your friends, share about this transformative work, raise funds for an impactful project, and have fun doing it.
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IWD Toolkit
Email [email protected] | [email protected] to receive our International Women’s Day Tool Kit for ideas and tips and join our 2026 IWD campaign.
Follow DFN on Facebook where we will be profiling the needs, posting stories, updating the number of Community Village Leaders supported, and sharing the creative ways people are partnering with us. We would love you to add photos of YOUR events too!
The impact equation is simple:
$250 = 1 Village Leader for 1 Year in 1 Village
*Please select your country to give and receive the correct tax receipt.