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The Trump administration continues to show that it doesn’t care about women, in the US or around the world. Yesterday, in one of this administration’s latest assaults on women, the State Department cut all US funding to the UNFPA, a United Nations agency that provides a wide range of lifesaving maternal and reproductive health care worldwide.

Terrified families are trapped in intensifying violence with nowhere to turn. But through your support of MADRE, you have helped reach them with lifesaving care. As we speak, our on-the-ground partners, the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), are in eastern Mosul preparing to open a new shelter for women and families escaping US airstrikes. There, they will receive vital safe haven and care, including food and medical aid. 

Today, on International Women's Day, we take to the streets to celebrate courageous women around the world. We renew the promise to be ever bolder in our demands for justice and more defiant against oppression.

We called on your help. And thanks to MADRE supporters like you, we were able to respond with lifesaving aid and care. 

As we start 2017, we’re gearing up to confront the many challenges we know we will face, in the US and around the world.

The humanitarian disaster in besieged Aleppo worsens daily. A plan to evacuate thousands of Syrians to safety is falling apart. Hospitals have been bombed, destroying access to lifesaving medical care for thousands of Syrian women and families.
 

The news out of Syria is beyond horrifying. Bombs have decimated Aleppo as government forces laid siege to the city. Reports from the ground say that people, including women and children, have been shot in the streets and in their homes.
 

 The past weeks have been filled with so much fear and bad news. But we are not buffeted by these changing winds, because our eyes are looking to what comes next and our feet are firmly planted — thanks to you.

Last month the military assault began to retake the city of Mosul from ISIS. It's estimated that up to one million Iraqis could be forced to flee their homes due to the violence.

Help women experiencing disasters.  Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful storm to hit the country in close to a decade, left a trail of destruction. But your generosity helped to ensure that we were ready to respond to this disaster immediately and effectively with lifesaving aid. 

As a girl, Lucy knew she wasn't supposed to play on the banks of the rushing Ngoboro River. If she wasn't careful, she could fall in and be swept away. Today, a relentless drought has reduced that river to a trickle, and families struggle to get the water they need.

I can’t thank you enough. That’s because in just the space of three months, your support brought safe haven and security to 119 young women and girls who have escaped sexual slavery by ISIS. Thank you!