22 Dec Your Support Over the Years Has Meant the World to Us
Your support over the years has meant the world to us.
As 2025 draws to a close, we are filled with gratitude for the survivors, artists, and activists who have made V-Day into a singular, ever-evolving global activist movement to end violence against women, gender-expansive people, and the Earth.
In 2025, V-Day continued to boldly shatter norms and create spaces for grassroots dialogue through art and activism:
ONE BILLION RISING activists have been mobilizing worldwide our 2026 campaign – RISE FOR OUR BODIES, OUR EARTH, OUR FUTURE – to transform the architectures of violence: economic and political, class and race, cultural and religious – and to disrupt the systems that violate, extract, diminish, exclude, and destroy.
At City of Joy in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we have graduated 2,407 survivors to date – young women who have turned their pain into power, healing themselves as they work to transform the Congo. Trained as leaders, they are now advancing change in journalism, banking, sustainable agriculture, and the nonprofit sector, building vital grassroots programs that meet the immediate needs of their communities. (Pictured: students, who graduated on 19 December in Bukavu, with their teachers and COJ co-founder & director Christine Schuler Deschryver)
At the V-Day Safe House for Girls in Narok County, Kenya, girls continue to break taboos – rejecting female genital mutilation and early childhood marriage while dedicating themselves to their education and communities. Two years ago, we launched a scholarship program, sending high school graduates to university. And this year, we celebrated our first Safe House graduate entering law school.
Photo: Shannon Finney / Getty for V-Day
VOICES, our interdisciplinary audio play and campaign grounded in Black women’s stories across the diaspora, is poised to launch in communities worldwide including public spaces, libraries and museums. Spearheaded by aja monet, the audio play is accompanied by a solidarity toolkit to guide listeners toward action.
Photo: Alexander Tamargo / Getty for V-Day
And following its first tour, our newest artistic production – Dear Everything: A Musical Uprising for the Earth – will take the stage at BAM in New York City on Earth Day 2026, featuring the iconic Jane Fonda as narrator. Created as theater for the people, to date 90% of the seats have been gifted to students, climate activists, farmers, front line workers and more AND over $90k in grants have been awarded to youth-led climate groups in the communities where the play has been staged. Centering young people navigating the climate crisis and the prospect of a future they are being told may not exist, Dear Everything urgently calls us to act.
In a world that often feels as though it is spinning out of control, V-Day remains a steady pillar for survivors, activists, artists and grassroots communities across the globe. This giving season, we invite you to stand with us and support the movement as we head into the new year. Visit vday.org/donate.
Every act of solidarity makes a difference.
With gratitude,
All of us at V-Day, City of Joy, One Billion Rising & VOICES
P.S. If your gift is already on its way, thank you.
31 December is the last day to make charitable donations to claim them on your 2025 US tax return. Your contribution fuels the work of V-Day, One Billion Rising, VOICES, Dear Everything, City of Joy, the Beyond Incarceration Project & the V-Day Safe House for the Girls.