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Linda Darin

As a dedicated advocate for women’s rights, ZPG Society member Linda Darin has supported Population Connection for more than a decade.

Through her extensive travels, Linda witnessed the devastating effects of overpopulation, such as poverty among large families—an issue she knows could be improved by empowering women with access to affordable reproductive health care and family planning options. To confront rapid population growth successfully, Linda firmly agrees that “every woman must have the right to choose whether or not to have children.” In addition, she emphasizes the significance of educating girls and women. “When women attain more education, they want fewer children,” she explains.

These issues are so important to Linda that she recently decided to include a gift to Population Connection in her will, ensuring our work toward these critical goals can continue well past her lifetime. 

We are deeply honored and grateful for her legacy gift, enrolling her as a member of our ZPG Society, and we appreciate her shared commitment to a more sustainable, equitable future.

Environmental and socioeconomic benefits

Women who have reproductive autonomy generally choose to have smaller families. This slows population growth and creates opportunities for social, economic, and environmental improvements. Slower population growth reduces pressures on natural resources, habitats, and food systems. Within the context of climate change, slowing population growth is key to achieving greenhouse gas emissions targets, and the health, education, and economic benefits afforded through family planning help reduce climate vulnerability and increase resilience for communities around the world.

Low Section Of Women Taking Water From Tubewell In Village Area Of Haryana, India

Health benefits

When women and couples have access to the resources necessary to freely and intentionally choose the number, timing, and spacing of their births, a wide variety of health benefits ensue also, including reductions in maternal mortality and morbidity, infant and child mortality, and unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions.

People walking down main road in Jinka town, Naciones, Ethiopia, Africa

The powerful, neglected solution

Read more about how empowering women and girls to take charge of their bodies and lives is key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in this blog post.

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How Your Gift Helps

Your planned gift to Population Connection helps us educate young people and advocate progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth’s resources. Among many things, your support will help us:

 
develop K-12 and secondary education materials for teachers and professors so they can easily incorporate population studies into their classes;
 
 
advocate for reproductive health and lead grassroots outreach efforts to college students to motivate them to take action on behalf of marginalized communities and our beleaguered planet.
 
 
raise awareness of population issues and the need for empowering solutions through our extensive online and offline communications.