Global GAIN Support Needed
Personal Update: November 30th, 2025 (my birthday)
Last month, a routine mammogram revealed I have early-stage breast cancer. I’m deeply grateful for excellent doctors, good insurance, and a community holding me up.
As I prepare for treatment, I’m also struck by how many women — especially those doing advocacy and community leadership — don’t have access to care, rest, or safety.
Women’s health is a democracy issue — and democracy is a women’s health issue.
That belief is at the heart of Global GAIN — a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) supporting civic leadership, women’s empowerment, and democracy programs in Rwanda, the DRC, Ukraine, Gaza, Eastern Europe, and here at home.
This year, our program space in Rwanda has come under serious and unexpected legal attack, involving corruption, abuse of process, and threats to the young women we serve. These actions are being taken against us, not by us. I must be careful publicly but can share more privately. This is not only a legal matter — it is a justice, rule-of-law, and democracy issue.
All of this is unfolding while democracy is under assault globally and here in the U.S.: political violence rising, communities targeted, rights stripped away, government dismantled, and the people who defend democracy burned out and under-resourced.
That is why we must act boldly.
One of Global GAIN’s flagship efforts is our CoKiyovu capital campaign, building a women’s leadership and wellness center in Kigali. Through Global GAIN and our local NGO partner Women GAIN Rwanda, CoKiyovu will provide:
- Wellness and healing programs
- Leadership and civic education
- Mentorship, entrepreneurship, and economic opportunity
- Artistic and cultural expression
- Breast cancer education and reproductive rights advocacy
Global GAIN also supports DRC Home, a women’s leadership cohort and children's center in Beni, DRC — part of our expanding regional women’s empowerment work.
Over the next year, we are working to raise over $5 million — and every contribution matters.
Whether you can give $5, $50, $100, or more, your support will help us:
- Protect our threatened program space in Rwanda
- Build CoKiyovu into a sanctuary for women
- Support Women GAIN Rwanda and DRC Home
- Strengthen civic leadership programs globally
- Sustain U.S. democracy workers
- Fund critical legal and program protection
If you’ve asked how to support me right now, this is it.
And if you'd like to donate to a local breast cancer organization in my name, please do—both matter.
Your gift — of any size — means more than you know.
Thank you for standing with us and with women everywhere.
— Amy Pritchard
Founder, Global GAIN
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