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Worldwide Beneficiaries

The direct beneficiaries of MADRE-supported projects in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East are thousands of women, children, and youth who participate in our projects or are the recipients of MADRE's humanitarian aid through our partner organizations.

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Indirect beneficiaries include hundreds of thousands of people who:

  • are family members of project participants;
  • receive information from community members who have participated in project trainings;
  • access services offered by our partner organizations; or
  • attend cultural events or are reached by television, radio programs, or newspapers produced by our partners.

The age of the beneficiaries of MADRE-supported projects ranges from infants to the elderly, but the majority are women and girls under the age of 35. Almost all of the beneficiaries live in extreme poverty, subsisting on less than $1 a day. Project participants are mostly unemployed or under-employed and a significant number are at risk for unplanned pregnancy, domestic violence, and/or substance abuse. Many have been denied access to formal education, healthcare (including family planning resources) and other basic rights, and many suffer from preventable, poverty-induced diseases and malnutrition.

MADRE currently supports projects in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Kenya, Rwanda, Palestine, Iraq, Haiti, and Sudan.

For more detailed information on MADRE projects in each country: Where We Work

Beneficiaries in the US

Raising public awareness in the US is an essential corollary to MADRE's work supporting women's community initiatives in developing countries. Therefore, public education is a fundamental component of all MADRE projects. MADRE's innovative US Public Education Program reaches far beyond our approximately 25,000 members, enabling people to draw connections between their own lives and the lives of women in the countries where we work, and providing concrete ways for people to take an active role in shaping public debate and US policies that affect women worldwide. Beneficiaries of MADRE's US Public Education Program include:

  • Hundreds of thousands who read our printed materials, which include:
    • a quarterly newsletter that reaches our members as well as hundreds of thousands of other people across the US through schools and libraries;
    • press releases and media advisories for journalists;
    • letters to the United Nations; and
    • campaign-specific materials like flyers.
  • Audiences of programs aired on BBC, CNN, NPR, Air America, Pacifica Radio�s Democracy Now!, The Nation, Ms. Magazine, and Oxygen media, all of which have featured MADRE commentators.
  • Students, faculty, staff, and community members at the universities, community centers, conferences, and places of worship around the US where MADRE speakers regularly make presentations.
  • Thirty thousand visitors per month on our website.
  • Six thousand subscribers to our active listserv.
  • Students, activists, religious communities, and other community members reached by our activist campaigns (including Helping Hands).