The Western Union Company and the Western Union Foundation Invest to Train 50,000 Women and Youth
16 3월 2016 - 9:00PM
Business Wire
The Western Union Foundation Announces Six NGO
Partners to Support Efforts and Continue Next Phase of the
Education for Better Campaign
The Western Union Company and the Western Union Foundation
today announced the official kick-off of the next phase of its
Education for Better program,
committing to invest US$1M to train 50,000 women and youth across
the Americas, Europe Union, Africa and Asia over the next five
years.
The financial commitment fulfills a pledge made in September
2012 during the launch of the United Nations Education First
initiative. The program will leverage Western Union® and Western
Union Foundation services, advocacy, cause marketing, philanthropic
investments and employee engagement to support education programs
worldwide.
“We are proud to continue the Education for
Better campaign, leveraging the strength of The Western
Union Company’s global network, the Western Union Foundation
and its NGO partners, to provide meaningful educational
opportunities and positive social impact throughout many of the
communities Western Union serves,” said John Dye, Board
Chairman, Western Union Foundation.
Following a week that celebrated women globally during
International Women’s Day, the Western Union Foundation named six
global non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to help meet program
goals across the world:
- SOS Children’s Villages
(Africa) will receive funding
to support vocational and life skills training for orphaned and
abandoned youth, especially young women, in the DRC, Ethiopia,
Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa
(video).
- Save the Children
(Asia) has developed the
‘Skills to Succeed’ program, providing at-risk youth with
vocational and technical training, financial literacy, and
entrepreneurship training. The Western Union Foundation will focus
its funding in China, India, and the Philippines.
- Teach For All (Europe). Through Teach for All partners in
Austria, France, Germany, Lithuania, and the UK, the Foundation
will help address youth education inequities that contribute to
worldwide challenges such as high unemployment and weak economic
development.
- Education For Employment
(EFE Middle East). With a focus
in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, the Foundation will support
EFE Middle East’s efforts to empower youth, especially young women
and girls, to build careers that create a better future for
themselves and their communities.
- Junior Achievement Americas
(JA - Americas/Caribbean)
inspires and prepares young people to succeed in a global economy.
With Foundation support in Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Jamaica,
and Mexico, JA Americas will support training that lead to career
readiness, with a particular focus on Science Technology
Engineering Mathematics (STEM) education.
- National Academy Foundation
(NAF - United States) will
receive support for its career academies that are focused learning
communities within public high schools and serve at-risk students
in the U.S. with a STEM-infused curriculum developed in partnership
with local industry. These career academies enable students to be
career/college ready. With Western Union Foundation funding, NAF
will focus on increasing enrollment and retention of female
students in STEM studies.
Just last week, Western Union recognized women in the work force
as agents of economic change. The company also saluted developed
and emerging economies for paving the way for these women to cross
borders and called for greater recognition and integration as women
emerge as powerful drivers of economies.
Women account for nearly 50 percent of the 247 million migrants
around the world and are set to move half of the estimated
US $610 billion that will cross borders in
2016.1 More than 75 percent of these remittances flow into
developing countries, underpinning a powerful economic dialogue
between families from one side of the globe to the other.
The Solutions for Youth Employment Coalition (S4YE) states one
third of the world’s 1.8 billion young people are currently neither
in employment, education or training – most of them women. Of the
one billion more youth that will enter the job market in the
next decade, only 40 percent are expected to be able to
get jobs that currently exist. The global economy will need to
create 600 million jobs over the next 10 years – five million
jobs each month - simply to keep pace with projected youth
employment rates.2
To date, the Western Union Foundation has pledged more than 76
percent of the US$104 million committed to advance education and
economic development.
About Western Union
The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) is a leader in global
payment services. Together with its Vigo, Orlandi Valuta, Pago
Facil and Western Union Business Solutions branded payment
services, Western Union provides consumers and businesses with
fast, reliable and convenient ways to send and receive money around
the world, to send payments and to purchase money orders. As of
December 31, 2015, the Western Union, Vigo and Orlandi Valuta
branded services were offered through a combined network of over
500,000 agent locations in 200 countries and territories and over
100,000 ATMs and kiosks, and included the capability to send money
to over one billion accounts. In 2015, The Western Union Company
completed 262 million consumer-to-consumer transactions worldwide,
moving $82 billion of principal between consumers, and 508 million
business payments. For more information, visit
www.westernunion.com.
About The Western Union Foundation
The Western Union Foundation is dedicated to creating a better
world, where the ability to realize dreams through economic
opportunity is not just a privilege for the few but a right for
all. Through its signature program, Education for Better, and with
the support of The Western Union Company, its employees, Agents,
and business partners, The Western Union Foundation works to
realize this vision by supporting education and disaster relief
efforts as pathways toward a better future. Our combined social
ventures efforts make life better for individuals, families and
communities around the world. Since its inception, The Western
Union Foundation has paid more than $106 million in grants and
other giving. These funds have been pledged to more than 2,794
nongovernmental organizations in more than 137 countries and
territories. The Western Union Foundation, is a separate §501(c)(3)
recognized United States charity. To learn more, visit
www.westernunionfoundation.org, or Follow us on Twitter
@TheWUFoundation.
WU-G / WU-F
1 WORLD BANK MIGRATION AND REMITTANCES FACTBOOK 2016 / MIGRATION
DEVELOPMENT BRIEF2 2015 Toward Solutions for Youth Employment,
S4YE
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