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Family planning has cascading benefits

Girls can continue in school

Girls can have later healthier pregnancies

Maternal and infant deaths reduce

Building Sustainability
through Family Planning

Women’s Plans Foundation is a charitable trust raising funds for family planning as an integral part of overseas aid programs. Family planning reduces maternal and child mortality and empowers women and families. WPF’s unique contribution is to ensure that family planning is an embodied part of health programs, mainstreaming contraception.

Family planning is the game changer. It improves women’s and infants' health, girls' and women's chances of education and opportunities for economic independence. It underpins population stability, now and into the future. It contributed to sustainability. Contraception is essential for individuals, families, communities and nations to be liberated from poverty.

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Why family planning matters

In developing countries, 225 million women have an unmet need for Family Planning, which causes every year:

74 Million Unplanned Pregnancies, 28 Million Unplanned Births, and 36 Million Abortions

$16

At a cost of less than $16 per person, we could supply a year’s supply of modern contraceptives to 222 million women.

By 2030 we will require 2 planet earths to meet humanity’s demand for renewable resources - but we have only one earth.

In developing countries, 214 million women
have an unmet need for Family Planning.

74 Million Unplanned Pregnancies,
28 Million Unplanned Births,
and 36 Million Abortions

$16

At a cost of less than $16 per person, we could
supply a year’s supply of modern contraceptives
to 222 million women.

By 2030 we will require 2 planet earths
to meet humanity’s demand for renewable
resources - but we have only one earth.

'Contraception is the greatest anti-poverty tool in the world'

Melinda Gates

'Contraception is the greatest anti-poverty tool in the world'

Melinda Gates

'Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny'

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Coming WPF events

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Volunteer Your Time

Opportunities exist to volunteer to be part of the Women's Plans Foundation team to assist us in extending our capacity to provide family planning as an integral part of overseas aid. If you are interested in volunteering to assist with fundraising, organising events, communications or administration, please send us an email to womensplansfoundation@bigpond.com or contact Alice Oppen 612 9817 5175.

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