Please join the We Empower Together campaign
by making a tax-deductible donation to WET Productions
for an enitre year to support 1 girl's education in WET'S RISK TAKERS SERIES

Consider this: a contribution of just $52 = $1 a week for an enitre year to support 1 girl's education in WET'S RISK TAKERS SERIES

Please help us continue to empower hundreds of teenage girls each year, saving them from abusive relationships, drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, unsafe sex and suicide through WET'S RISK TAKERS SERIES

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Click above to make a donation through Network for Good.

Click below to watch a video about the work WET has been doing to empower women and girls for the past ten years. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far!



  
Lili Taylor and Risk Taker
"Girls today are much more oppressed. They are coming of age in a more dangerous, sexualized, and media-saturated culture. They face incredible pressures to be beautiful and sophisticated, which in junior high means using chemicals and being sexual. As they navigate a more dangerous world, girls are less protected."
-Mary Pipher, PhD
Reviving Ophelia, Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Maria Maggenti, Nicole Ari Parker and Logan Levkoff, PhD
"The health of girls and women is a true indicator of the health of the nation and of the next generation. If girls and women are not healthy we are all at a disadvantage"
-Professor Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize Winner and
Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

"Because of a session where we discussed abuse, I feel that I am now aware of how to recognize it and what to do about it"
-Veronica, City College High School
Kelly McGillis and Risk Taker

"I remember the session when Kelly McGillis shared her story on being a survivor of rape. Risk Takers definitely gave me a bigger view on how to set boundaries. I also learned it is okay to say no at any given point you feel you should.
- Susan, Saint Jean Baptiste High School
"Before the program I thought a risk taker was someone who took death-defying risks. Now I think it's someone who is brave enough to make a change".
-Ashley, Bread and Roses High School



We have received online donations ranging from $15 to $150, and each one makes a HUGE difference to the growth of our outreach program for teenage girls

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Your donation will enable us to:

  • Ensure that WET's Risk Takers Series remains free of charge to all students.
  • Provide girls with trusted female mentors to safely address pressing issues raised in the program including: abusive relationships, teen pregnancy, rape, drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders, HIV/AIDS, and peer pressure.
  • Offer classes in nutrition, sex education, street safety and public speaking.
  • Reinforce the importance of higher education and provide girls with tools and resources to apply to college.
  • Teach girls how to look at the media with a critical eye, so they may safely and intelligently navigate their media-saturated environments (internet, television, film).
  • Introduce girls to women in the media who serve as role models of achievement such as Frances McDormand, Kerry Washington, Keri Russell, Olympia Dukakis, Ally Sheedy, Audra Taylor, Lili Taylor, Mary-Louise Parker, Kirsten Smith, Nicole Holfcener, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Lori Silverbush, Maria Maggenti and many more.
  • Help WET change the way the world sees women and the way women see themselves, starting with one girl at a time.

Please give a gift this year in honor of your sister, mother, grandmother, or yourself by contributing to this powerful charitable program.

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WET'S RISK TAKERS SERIES
Through its unique curriculum, WET's Risk Takers Series teaches girls the difference between an empowering risk and a damaging risk, providing them with tools to build self-esteem and the ability to recognize and avoid at-risk behavior. Over 500 high school girls, between the ages of 13-19, from all five boroughs of New York City have benefitted from the program thus far, experiencing increased confidence, healthy relationships, improved performance in school and greater involvement as leaders in their communities. Last year alone, 125 girls participated with a near perfect attendance record; the program has become a vital part of each participant's life.