Second-quarter beneficiary TL2 - Bonobo in Congo gave us this report on how the funds they received from Foundation Beyond Belief will help them with their ongoing work. Foundation members donated $2,105 to TL2 last quarter.

Friends from the Foundation beyond Belief,

We have been working in the center of Congo in an area we call Tshuapa-Lomami-Lualaba (TL2) for the last three and a half years.  Our goal is to create a national park, but in a country like Congo, a law creating a park is not enough. If the people most closely connected to the land are not willing to work to make the park a reality, it will never be more than a paper park.

Second-quarter beneficiary Equality Now gave us this report on how the funds they received from Foundation Beyond Belief will help them with their ongoing work. Foundation members donated $2,090 to Equality Now last quarter.

Equality Now is most grateful to participate in Foundation Beyond Belief. With your help, we continue in our mission to end violence and discrimination against women and girls.  Dependent on the campaign, Equality Now uses the following strategies to accelerate change: international advocacy; awareness-raising; partnerships and coalition building; strengthening international and regional human rights law, standards, and mechanisms; conducting strategic litigation; and mobilizing financial and capacity building support for local groups.

Our four program areas are Discrimination in Law, Sexual Violence, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), and Trafficking. 

Second-quarter beneficiary Circle of Women gave us this report on how they're using the funds they received from Foundation Beyond Belief. Foundation members donated $2,265 to Circle of Women last quarter.

Circle of Women has used Foundation Beyond Belief's generous gift to construct one of the four bathrooms currently being installed in our project in Keiri Reki village, Pakistan. The bathrooms at the government-run school were destroyed in the 2005 earthquake and had been left derelict ever since.

Data indicates that with functioning bathroom facilities, female students are twice as likely to attend rural school facilities. The bathrooms, along with the water tanks and computer room that Circle of Women are constructing at the school, will help promote accessibility to education at this rural facility. Construction will be finished within the month. Updates on the KR project can be found at http://latest.circleofwomen.org/. Thank you, Foundation Beyond Belief!