Tell Your Legislator: Women are Key to Fighting Poverty

Tell Your Legislator: Women are Key to Fighting Poverty
Speak out! Ask Congress to support policies that help women in poor communities. To send a message to your elected officials, just sign your name to the e-mail below. It's a simple action that will make a difference in the lives of poor women around the world. By telling your members of Congress that you think fighting global poverty is a priority, you can influence their decisions and have a powerful impact.

What's At Stake?
Tell Your Legislator: Women are Key to Fighting Poverty
CARE's poverty-fighting work takes many forms, from providing access to clean water to training teachers to helping women create economic opportunities. But sometimes this work is not enough. In addition to our programs in the field, CARE also pursues our mission by speaking out about policies and laws that could help or hinder women's efforts to lift themselves out of poverty.


But CARE can't do this alone. We need you to join the global movement dedicated to defending dignity and fighting poverty. By telling your elected officials that you think fighting poverty is a priority, you can influence their decisions and have a powerful impact.


Send a message today. Tell your elected representatives how important it is to consider the impact of their decisions on poor women. By lending your voice, you will join thousands of others who are speaking out for policies that help break the cycle of poverty.

Dear [ Decision Maker ],


I am writing to ask you to support U.S. foreign policies and programs that address the social and economic inequalities that leave women in the developing world subject to a life of poverty.

As a general rule, women are more vulnerable than men when it comes to poverty. Consider the facts:
- Women constitute 70 percent of the poorest people in the world today.
- Women produce half the world's food, but own only 1 percent of its farmland.
- Of the 876 million illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women.
- In some countries in the developing world, women are more likely to die in childbirth than reach the sixth grade.

Changing these circumstances is no small order, but it can be done. Women and their families can succeed when they have the right tools and resources available to them - economic opportunity, basic health care and education, the ability to participate in decisions that affect them and recognition of their basic rights and dignity.

Giving people an opportunity to improve their lives is what America is all about. As you make choices in this year's budget process, please remember that your decisions about U.S. foreign assistance programs will affect millions of women. I will keep in touch as specific opportunities arise.

Thank you for your consideration.

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Sincerely,
Lincoln Oviedo
90 stayman turn ct
Linden VA 22642