COMPASSION AND GENEROSITY
There are many ways to give: we can contribute our time, our skills, our attention… For those who are financially resourced, sharing our abundance with others is a wonderful way to live our values.
Through the Bhakti Women Summit we raised $2,656 for:
- International Women’s Development Agency
- Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)
- Mothers of Maldives
Explore the impact we made below...
TOGETHER, WE SUPPORTED...
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
IWDA is an Australia-based organisation, resourcing diverse women’s rights organisations primarily in Asia and the Pacific and contributing to global feminist movements to advance the vision of gender equality for all.
The organisation has worked for more than 35 years to defend and advance the rights of diverse women and girls.
Their roots are in the development sector, as Australia’s only development organisation entirely focused on gender equality. This brings strengths in the form of deep and long-lasting relationships with the network of women’s rights organisations they support.
IWDA’s approach represents a third way between the models of women’s funds and international development NGOs: they resource the work of diverse women’s rights organisations, enable them to be more effective by providing support that goes beyond money, and they make their own contributions to feminist movements through advocacy, knowledge creation and translation.
Funds raised from this summit will support this inspirational work.
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES (DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS)
MSF provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare.
Their teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff. Their actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality. They are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.
MSF was founded in 1971 in Paris by a group of journalists and doctors. Today, they are a worldwide movement of more than 42,000 people. The Médecins Sans Frontières Australia office was set up in 1994. Every year around two hundred Australians and New Zealanders are sent to MSF projects by Médecins Sans Frontières Australia.
Funds raised from this summit will support this vital work.
MOTHERS OF MALDIVES
In the wake of midwifery standardisation – the kind that completely overwrites indigenous wisdom - traditional midwifery and postpartum care in the Maldives has been largely lost.
The last few generations of Maldivian women have been removed from their cultural heritage of a vibrant, traditional birth keeping system, thereby robbing new mothers of support.
Hadhee Ja, a certified Ayurvedic Doula from the Maldives - is on a mission to document and disseminate this indigenous wisdom, thereby reclaiming and reviving these practices.
Funds raised from this summit will support the production of a documentary and book to further this mission.
THE RECORDINGS AND BONUSES...
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Lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu
May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and freedom for all
(Translation by Sharon Gannon)
