International Service Program
Women's equality is not yet a reality. Women worldwide face systemized discrimination - they lack opportunities to live healthy lives, free from legal, social, economic and political inequality. Zonta International empowers women to overcome barriers to their equal human rights through its International Service Projects funded by the Zonta International Foundation.
Since 1923, Zonta has provided...
more than US$8 million to projects benefiting millions of women and their families representing 34 countries.
Fast Facts
- In sub-Saharan Africa, 57% of adults with HIV are women and young women 15 to 24 are more than three times as likely to be infected as young men.
- Globally, more than 80% of women do not have sufficient knowledge about HIV/AIDS and many women do not have the power to say no to sex with an infected partner.
- Every year an estimated 4 million women and girls are bought and sold worldwide.
- More than 59 million school-aged girls are not in school and female illiteracy rates remain higher than men.
- Approximately 530,000 women die annually in pregnancy or during childbirth, mainly due to lack of access to health care.