Empowered women become the building blocks for higher standards of living for their families and their communities. Through education programs like Tia’s, investing in women can produce gains in GDP growth.  Multiple studies published in just the last year by the Clinton Global Initiative, the United Nations, Save the Children and the World Health Organization reinforce the cost effectiveness of projects that focus on women partly because they have the broadest reaching results.

Women-led approached to development improve health, economic and quality of life outcomes for everyone, especially children.  Though Tia does not influence our villages or impose any gender bias on who to choose as Health Workers, so far, they have all chosen women.

Tia empowers women to become instruments in solving long-term challenges in their villages. By enabling women to be their own instruments of change, they become the mechanisms of poverty eradication through community leadership and development.

Over two evenings, our volunteers logged more than 50 hours assembling each of 20 medical kits.  Each kit contains about 50 items, from bandages to syringes, gloves to stethoscopes, IV solutions, glucometers and tape.  Because we buy in bulk to maximize our precious donated funds, we hold parties to count out items for each kit.  Here you see Octovio from GlobalVantage Design Source counting masks and Laura is counting sterile bandages. Tia had four volunteers from GlobalVantage has appreciated the crucial  help of many of its employees over the years.