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About
The Gender Rights Equality Action Trust (GREAT) is a London based charity which aims to tackle gender inequality in innovative ways. Set up in 2011 by journalist Mariella Frostrup, human rights lawyer Jason McCue, producer, artist and writer Karen Ruimy, and joined in 2013 by Maria Sukkar, GREAT has been working to raise awareness amongst people who do not believe the issue of gender equality to be relevant.

GREAT Men Value Women
GREAT Men is a free school workshop program delivered by 18-28 year old volunteers with classes of 14-16 year old boys. The aim of the workshops are to challenge and inspire the next generation of young men to think about gender equality and how they can take social action to promote it.



The GREAT Gender Atlas
The Gender Atlas will be freely published online as a simple, effective too for campaigners, educators and advocates for gender equality. The Atlas will include a series of simple indices ranking the life chances available to women and men in major parts of their lives. These will include health, exposure to violence, political empowerment and human rights. Countries will be ranked according to the gaps between men's and women's opportunities and outcomes.



Liberia Women Democracy Radio
GREAT financially supports the Liberia Women Democracy Radio and is in the process of creating a franchise model using it as a template. Operated by The Liberian Women Media Action Committee (LIWOMAC), the radio station is the first and only one dedicated to promoting women's issues. As well as being broadcast 12 hours a day, the station runs outreach programmes in local communities, run onsite media and journalism training, and lobby on gender sensitive issues which are normally unmentioned by the mainstream media.



Film for Change
GREAT has been financially and technically supporting a project in Kenya with a women's organisation advocating for an end to Female Genital Mutilation. By using film, messages from local community members were shown to be relevant and effective to elders previously resistant to change. Some tribal elders have never seen video before which made them excited to watch it.

This model will be used on many issues that affect women's rights to strive and thrive; from land rights, to rape, to economic and political empowerment.