Press Releases Archives: 2013 03
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BSR Wins US$1.77 Million Grant from Dutch Government to Invest in Women’s Health
March 26, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO—March 26, 2013—The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands has awarded a US$1.77 million grant to BSR’s HERproject, a peer-to-peer education program on women’s sexual and reproductive health that has reached more than 200,000 female workers in more than 150 factories and farms in eight countries: Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, and Vietnam. BSR will use the grant to expand HERproject, particularly within Asia and Africa.
