[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This past year has been a challenging time for girls rights across the globe. Because of the pandemic, over 10 million girls are at-risk of school dropout. In Uganda, an estimated 20% of girls did not return to school after the first lockdown and in the UK, 1.5 million young women have lost income since...
Written by Amy Jackson at Futureproof Digital Media LtdSupport Irise This September in the Discount Promo Codes Charity PollThis September, Irise are partnering with money saving website Discount Promo Codes in a bid to win 20% of their profits. We’ll be competing alongside two other charities for votes, and we need your support! Discount Promo Codes...
Tiff Chan and Shawn P. Griffin(@shawnpgriffin) - “Bless the Souls who Made our Clothes”Tiff Chan (Kyokaruna, Arty Catalyste) and Shawn P. Griffin collaborated to produce the piece above, generously donated to Irise Art for Action, which won 2nd runner up for the 2014 Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize, raising HK$10,500 for charity. Tiff seeks to use...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Last week our CEO Emily detailed how the pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and is turning into a girls’ rights crisis. With help being harder to access than ever before, I want to inspire change and show how you can help if you have the ability.Covid 19 Mutual Aid UK aims to set up small...
We’re thrilled to have been part of a ground-breaking piece of work led by Dr Julie Hennegan at John Hopkins University to develop a new tool to measure girls’ experiences of menstruation, the Menstrual Practice Needs Scale. The paper’s just, the academically inclined among you can read it here and you can access all the tools and...
One of my favourite quotes is from William Blake; “I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.” It helped me make the decision to found Irise and start working to build the kind of society I want to live in.As a young woman it can sometimes feel like there’s a whole list of things...
