Programs

Education is the key to gender equality, which has yet to be achieved anywhere in the world.


Our years of experience working with women and girls has taught us that education is the key to unlocking economic empowerment of the world’s women and girls. When women and girls are educated, they have opportunity, choice and power to make healthy decisions for themselves and their families.

Soroptimist Live Your Dream Award

Live Your Dream Award assists women who provide the primary source of financial support for their families by giving them the resources they need to improve their education, skills and employment prospects.

Soroptimist Dream It Be It Mentorship

Dream It Be It program provides career support for high school girls by giving them the tools and resources needed to achieve their education and career goals. We aim to help girls grow up to be strong, successful, and happy adults.

Soroptimist Uplift Her

Soroptimist UpliftHER focuses on an obstacle that women and girls face on their path to formal education and economic empowerment. Focus of October-December: “Intimate Partner Violence”

33% of women globally will be subjected to gendered violence in her lifetime (WHO)

In the U.S., over two-thirds (69.4 percent) of Black single mother students did not earn a certificate or degree within six years of enrollment. (Institute for Women’s Policy Research)

Only 51% of teen moms in the U.S. finish their high school diploma by age 22. (National Women’s Law Center)

Women earn $.77 cents for every dollar men earn for work of equal value. (United Nations)

Education is the key to gender equality, which has yet to be achieved anywhere in the world.