Simavi - A healthy life for all

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27 March 2020

The impact of COVID-19 on our work – where can we make a difference

The restrictions we face have a huge impact on our programmes, which are mostly built around group meetings and community interactions, and most activities have been put on hold whilst at the same time we are reviewing and adapting to the new situation.

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6 March 2020

Women of Gold

The film – directed by Jerry de Mars - depicts a reality of a world that for us seems fictional. Confronted by the poverty and gender-inequality that haunt our golden jewellery, viewers are persuaded to ask the same questions about the origin of our gold as that we ask about our coffee and chocolate.

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9 March 2020

Simavi celebrates the 10th anniversary of the human rights to water and sanitation

The Special Rapporteur is partnering with various organisations to promote the human rights to water and sanitation (HRWS), including Simavi. In March, the theme in focus is “gender equality in the human rights to water and sanitation”, a theme that particularly fits with the work Simavi has been conducting over many years now and with our human rights-based approach.

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2019 at Simavi: almost 95 years old, but still learning

In 2019 we implemented a renewed and refreshed vision. Core of this vision: our work to empower women and girls socially and economically to enable them to pursue a healthy life.

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9 January 2020

Dutch soccer player Leonne Stentler visits girls empowerment project in Malawi

Together with the UEFA foundation, Simavi has implemented a programme to enhance awareness on gender equality and sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR).

Partnering with Simavi

To achieve a healthy life for all we work together to ensure that disadvantaged people in low- and middle-income countries practice healthy behaviours based on their own free and informed decisions.

Simavi has been working to improve basic health for ninety years

Over this time, we have acquired an extensive body of knowledge on how to successfully develop and implement programmes to improve people’s health and rights – and we are still learning every day.

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Sustainable, positive change

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Theory of Change

Simavi strives for a world in which all women and girls are socially and economically empowered and able to pursue their rights to a healthy life, free from discrimination, coercion and violence.

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