FEMINIST HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE  WITH AND FOR GIRLS AND YOUNG FEMINISTS!

The Global Resilience Fund is a collaborative feminist fund working with and for girls and young feminists responding to crises.

5 YEARS OF RESILIENCE

5 YEARS OF RESILIENCE

5 YEARS RESOURCING INNOVATIVE FRONTLINE CRISIS AND HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE WITH AND FOR GIRLS AND YOUNG FEMINISTS

LATEST REPORT

$4.3 Million
USD

LEVERAGED TO RESOURCE CRISIS RESPONSE EFFORTS

640 +

GIRL AND YOUNG FEMINIST-LED GROUPS RESOURCED

120 +

COUNTRIES
REACHED

A collage image of young feminist activists.

FROM PALESTINE TO UKRAINE, SYRIA TO SUDAN, GIRLS AND YOUNG FEMINISTS BEAR THE IMPACT OF CRISES WHILE LEADING THE FRONTLINE RESPONSE EFFORTS.

Despite grappling with unimaginable suffering, girls and young feminists courageously respond to their communities' urgent needs, constructing alternative systems and structures. Unfortunately, the humanitarian sector continues to ignore and overlook their unique needs and solutions. The Global Resilience Fund is a collective response to this reality, urging funders to take collective action and reimagine what is possible when we support the transformative strategies and solutions of girls and young feminists responding to crises while tackling the systemic injustices that perpetuate them. 

CRISIS RESPONSE
FUNDING

Through a participatory approach, we distribute flexible rapid-response and long term  funding to girls and young feminists impacted by and responding to acute and protracted crises.

ACCOMPANIMENT AND
LEARNING

We provide support and referrals, as co-curate community spaces to support collaboration, build solidarity, and develop learning and advocacy resources with girls and young feminists responding to crises.

ORGANIZING AND
ADVOCACY

We develop learning and advocacy efforts with activists and funders to amplify the efforts of and move more and better funding to girls and young feminists responding to crises.

COLLABORATIVE FEMINIST
HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE IN ACTION

“We supported the reopening of two community-based education facilities, coordinated safe housing and legal support for activists facing threats and facilitated micro-grants and vocational training for single mothers, enabling them to start small businesses. The emphasis on youth leadership, feminist values, and grassroots decision-making made this grant feel not only impactful but also affirming.” 

Young Feminists Group, Afghanistan

“We used part of this grant to welcome the population trying to flee the violence of the armed gangs of Port-au-Prince, through our reception center we offered individual psychological support sessions and group sessions, counseling, consultation to beneficiaries, telephone calls, for rape survivors by our psychosocial and medical staff.”

Neges Kreyol, Haiti

“We are working to support women’s survival, dignity, and well-being. We distribute essential supplies and run mobile women’s clinics that provide psychological support, healthcare consultations, and maternity care. These clinics also allow us to document women’s experiences and collect data for documentation. We have opened a space where women’s groups can gather, and we collaborate with emergency rooms and shelters to provide the first psychological aid for women affected by the conflict.”

Young Feminist Group, Sudan


”We work on strengthening the resilience of children in displacement camps and shelters during this time of war and genocide in Gaza. Our primary role is to provide children with essential needs, including food, clean water, medical care, and seasonal clothing.  We have launched healthy nutrition initiatives, organized emotional release activities, and implemented cooperative educational programs for children.”

Basmat Amal (Smile of Hope), Palestine

News & Resources

5 Years of Resilience

Impact & learnings resourcing frontline crisis led by girls and young feminists

Earthquake in Syria and Turkey

Young Feminist Frontline Crisis Response to the Earthquake in Syria and Turkey

Weathering the Storm

Resourcing Girls and Young Activists through a Pandemic

  • "Our group works to empower women and girls in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, contributing to the creation of safe spaces for expression, learning, and healing. We work to spread a culture of nonviolence, raise awareness of rights, and build women’s capacity. We also document violations against women and work to amplify their voices as part of broader justice and accountability efforts.”

    – Mazaya, Syria

  • “Funders must understand that our strength lies in being deeply rooted in our communities, in our adaptability, and in our ability to respond quickly and creatively. Young feminists don’t need to be trained to lead; we already lead. What we need is to be supported in our own ways, using our own tools and languages.”

    - Salamatou Alassane, GRF Young Local Advisor, Niger

  • "After the revolution, an organic feminist movement was built, and it is this movement that’s mobilizing on the ground today through community kitchens and grassroots-led initiatives."

    - Young Sudanese Organizer, Sudan

  • “Children became ill due to water contamination and the destruction caused by the hurricane. In response, we implemented free health brigades, providing medicine and psychological support. We also arranged financial support and donations for those who lost their homes.”

    Afrocaracolas Collective, Mexico

Partners

The Global Resilience Fund is a partnership between social justice funders committed to resourcing girls and young feminists on the frontline of crisis response.​

Launched at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic by 20 founding partners, the Global Resilience Fund has continued to evolve and adapt over the last few years to meet the needs and realities faced by girls and young feminist responding to crisis.

Photos this page by Massiel, Hickmatu, and from grantee partner Feminists in Kenya.

Donate to the Fund!

We are urgently mobilising resources for the worlds most critical humanitarian crisis. All money donated from the public will go directly to girls and young women with no overhead fee. The Fund is administered by Purposeful, an international organisation with a track record of moving resources to young activists in more than 100 countries across the world. Purposeful is registered as a U.K. Charity and 501C(3) for tax Purposes.

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