When women are mobilized to take action, they address the critical issues that end hunger in their communities. These include health, education, nutrition, sanitation, income-generation, and awareness building about the issues that hold women's subjugation in place.

Their work is not easy. For individual women, it means finding the courage to step forth in the face of violence and opposition, and to juggle the burdens of multiple responsibilities and tedious work.

It means confronting thousands of years of tradition, which keep women subjugated, marginalized and disempowered.

It means breaking through the mindset of dependency and resignation that has both women and men believe they are powerless to create a new future.

The Hunger Project is committed to unleashing the leadership of women at all levels of Bangladeshi society.

In the sections to come, we will look at the process of mobilization for women in particular.