BY NABEEHA KAZI HUTCHINS | For the past few weeks, the world has watched in horror as the Russian invasion of Ukraine has catapulted the nation into a humanitarian disaster. For women and girls, gender-based violence and sexual assault are extreme threats, but are too often ignored in humanitarian crisis responses.
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BY AARYANA SHARMA | Right before the pandemic, Annabel Yu met a single mom living in a Dallas homeless shelter. The woman’s husband recently left her and her three kids. She said that if she had known he was going to walk, she may not have had the third child if that meant she could provide a better life for her first two. “Thinking about her, and thinking about the tons of other women who are in her situation, or were heading towards that situation,” made Yu, 17, establish her commitment to support reproductive rights for all people in Texas.
As the founder of Change 4 Choice, Yu sells T-shirts, bags and pins with her organization’s name to fundraise for Planned Parenthood. The merchandise is a selection of handmade and company-produced goods, some of which Yu gets screen printed. She launched the site in January after learning about current legislation and legal actions taken to suppress abortion rights and healthcare in Texas and other states in the country.
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