Your support for girls like Anatercia means action, creating last change and building brighter futures.
Help girls like Anatercia thrive
This year alone, there are estimated to be 388 million women and girls worldwide living in extreme poverty.
Your generosity can truly make a difference by:
Enriching young minds with literacy and numeracy skills, beneficial in finding future employment
Providing necessities, including access to clean and safe water, and food for nourishment
Funding shelters that provide food, accommodation, counselling, legal assistance, and referrals to other services, including health and education, for women and children survivor of violence
Training vulnerable women to develop livelihood skills that help them support themselves and their children as they reintegrate into communities, building their independence and resilience
How Anatercia’s life transformed
After Anaterica’s father passed away, she and her brother and sick mother moved in with her elderly grandparents into a small hut with no electricity or a hospital, secondary school, and supermarket nearby.
At the age of 12, Anatercia took on more and more responsibilities around the home to support her grandparents. Her education began to suffer as Anatercia needed to help her family by travelling daily to collect water.
Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, Anatercia and her family joined the Integrated Rural Development Program, supported by Caritas Australia's partner, Caritas Regional Chokwe, which provided them with food, seeds, school supplies, and a school uniform for Anatercia. They also helped install a system of taps in the village, so Anatercia and fellow community members no longer needed to walk for hours to collect water.
Now, Anatercia can dedicate more time to her education to fulfil her dream of becoming a nurse.
"I have enough time to take care of my mother because I have water close to the house, I am studying here in the community, and the farm gives us food all year round. Thank you, Caritas Australia,” said Anatercia.
Only with your help can more young lives like Anatercia’s be empowered.