February 21, 2025

This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “Accelerate Action for Gender Equality.” Empowering women and girls is one of the most effective ways to achieve sustainable development, yet programs that support women and girls sadly remain severely underfunded. We must change that!

Joining us for a virtual presentation is Wendo Sahar, Founder and Executive Director of Dandelion Africa. Dandelion Africa is a Kenyan women-led NGO focused on women’s health and economic empowerment. Their programs cover reproductive health, maternal and child health, economic livelihoods, and more. Wendo has over a decade of experience in grassroots sustainability programs rooted in community-driven solutions.

Join us for this insightful presentation on Thursday, March 6^th, at 1pm ET/10am PT. 

For every piece of trustworthy news available, there are countless others that may be misleading, incomplete, or entirely false. It begs the question: how do you know if a source is trustworthy? PopEd tackles this problem with an informative guide to ensuring that the media sources you consume are reliable. 

This guide is just one resource PopEd is offering as part of our latest quarterly theme, which covers media literacy. You can read this post, and see other resources for teaching this topic in classrooms, on the blog, below.

As you’ve heard, the new administration is trying to dissolve the US Agency for International Development (USAID). This unprecedented, and illegal, move—alongside Donald Trump’s executive order calling for a 90-day “freeze” on foreign aid—is wreaking havoc on the international development community.

Affected programs include those that distribute critical family planning, reproductive health, and maternal health services around the world. These programs work to prevent unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion and the injuries and deaths that result from both. They are also critically important for global population stabilization.

You can join the fight to help save this vital agency—see ways to get involved at the website below. 

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