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Shirzanan works to expand access to sport for Muslim women and girls worldwide. We use sports and media to catalyze discussion and advancements in women's rights and gender equality. We produce and disseminate stories - particularly to populations whose governments limit free information and women's rights. Shirzanan is the Persian word for "female heroes" and an apt description of the Muslim female athletes who triumph over cultural, social and religious barriers to excel at sport. We promote them as role models who speak out and stand up against discrimination. To shape a positive narrative around Muslim females and counter stereotypes exacerbated by mainstream media, we train female journalists to cover female athletes and train female athletes as role models and advocates. We uphold the Olympic Charter's statement that "The practice of sport is a human right." Everyone deserves access to sport and its consequent health, academic, economic, social and gender equality.

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Lane County is a powerful voice for children who are in the child welfare system due to abuse and neglect.We envision a world in which every child has a safe, permanent home.

Mission To advocate for a safe and permanent home for abused and neglected children in Yellowstone County.   Vision To provide a highly trained volunteer Advocate for every abused and neglected child in the Yellowstone County court and foster care systems.

Lifting Hands is a center for learning and motivation that impoverished community members can call home. It is a place volunteers share their time, expertise and experience with community members of all ages, developing strong bonds of friendship based on God's love.

Provides a wonderful home environment, a Christian education,ministering and counseling for abused and neglected children, admitted from age 6 to 14. The children may remain until they graduate from our ACSI K-12 accredited school.

DAC's Mission is to: protect children that have been abused and abandoned by their family; provide quality education to the needy, and take care of poor elderly women. Our Foundation has built and supports: Hogar San Jose: 35 girls between 4 and 17 live permanently at the home. They have been taken away from their families by a judge because they were victims of sexual abuse, abandonment of violence. We are their "Home away from home". A team of 20 care takers, 2 psychologists , 1 social worker, and 1 teacher assists them every day. More than 30 volunteers help them in their daily choresand with their school work and transportation. We all aim to help them recover their self esteem Hogar Santa Ana: 51 elderly ladies, mostly without family, live in our home. They each have a private bedroom, there is one bathroom every 4 bedrooms, and we provide them with breakfast, lunch and dinner. They only pay a symbolic amount. They can get involved in any of the workshops that take place at the home, such as choir, history, literature etc. Our Schools: We have 6 schools with more that 2400 pupils that can have access to bilingual quality education, with extended care so that the parents can drop them off prior to going to work and pick them up when they finish. We feed them, and educate them, completing the official curricula as well as 2nd language (english), sports, computer science. Two of the schools have an integration program and 20 % of their students are special needs students.

To provide safe emergency housing in a drug free environment for single mothers and their children. We help each family transition into a stable homes by providing them with developmental tools such as family counseling, mentoring, job readiness and emergency child development.

CASA of Travis County exists to promote and protect the best interest of children who have been abused or neglected, by training volunteers to advocate for them in courts, in schools and in our community to help them find safe, permanent and loving homes.

CASA of Collin County promotes and protects the best interest of children who have been abused or neglected by training volunteer advocates to improve the child’s quality of life and serve as their voice within the court system to ensure they are placed in a safe, permanent and loving home.

As the largest national, non-partisan, grassroots organization leading the fight to prevent gun violence, The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is dedicated to creating an America free from gun violence, where all Americans are safe at home, at school, at work, and in their communities.

Provide a safe home and quality education to disadvantaged girls who lack opportunity or are from problem backgrounds, Pre-school to 12 Grade. Girls come from poverty, broken homes, orphanages, situations of abandonment, and violent or abusive environments. DWF provides free of charge: traditional academic education, meals, medical care, a comfortable living situation, clothing, all school supplies and travel expenses. Currently DWF has set a goal to expand the student body by an additional 1000 students over the next 3-4 years, in order to bring greater progress and success to the future of more young, at-risk women in Thailand.

Mission: Ensuring consistency and support for children in the foster care system through the use of volunteer advocates advancing the best interests of each child. Vision: Every child in need is appointed a CASA to champion for them in Court, without compromise, on the path to a safe and permanent home.