What is V-Day?
V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls.
V-Day is a non-profit corporation that distributes funds to grassroots, national, and international organizations and programs that work to stop violence against women and girls.
V-Day is a palpable energy, a fierce catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations.
V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop worldwide violence against women and girls including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), and sexual slavery.
V-Day provides funding to create and nurture innovative programs to stop the violence.
Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of "The Vagina Monologues" to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities.
Transgender people are hit especially hard by violence. Given the size of our community, the numbers are staggering, and many deaths and murders due to gender variance never get reported as such by the media. The Remembering Our Dead project and the annual Day of Remembrance work to raise awareness that there is still much work to be done to help our youngest and most vulnerable members.
2004 marks the first V-Day event staged by the transgender community and cast with transgender women. We are building bridges to larger communities who share our vision of a world free of violence.
V-Day itself stages large-scale benefits and promotes innovative gatherings and programs (The Afghan Women's Summit, The 1% Campaign, Indian Country Project, and more) to change social attitudes towards violence against women.
In 2003 the Worldwide Campaign raised over $2 million and donated $1.2 million to worthy organizations all over the world. We had events in Australia, Barbados, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy our first V-Day in Kenya, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Netherlands, an incredible event in Pakistan and Palestinian Territories, Philippines, Romania, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey and the United States.
The V-Day movement is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world. V-Day was named one of Worth Magazine's "100 Best Charities" in 2001. In its first five years, the V-Day movement has raised over $14 million, with over $7 million raised in 2002 alone.
The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina.
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