WTA Foundation in Support of UNICEF
WTA Foundation and UNICEF are partnering to help close the women’s health gap by improving access to life-changing health and nutrition resources for women and children worldwide.
The WTA Foundation is mobilizing lifesaving health and nutritional resources for children and women across the globe through the UNICEF-led Child Nutrition Fund. Rallying the world of tennis and beyond, the WTA Foundation and UNICEF partnership aims to provide women essential care, including access to the prenatal vitamins critical to giving children the healthiest start in life.
Advancing women’s health and nutrition through tennis
The mission of the WTA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Women’s Tennis Association, is to empower girls and women to live fully. WTA Foundation’s tentpole Women Change the Game campaign, in partnership with the Gates Foundation, is committed to making women’s health and nutrition a global priority. The WTA Foundation’s Global Women’s Health Fund is central to the campaign.
In 2025, WTA Foundation and UNICEF launched an initial one-year partnership, where funds raised through the Global Women’s Health Fund will go to the Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) with a goal to support women globally with critical health and nutrition resources. The CNF, a new UNICEF-led financing mechanism, is designed to enable the sustainable scale-up of policies, programs, and supplies to address undernutrition in children and women.
Improving maternal nutrition to help women and their children thrive
Equitable access to healthy diets and quality antenatal care is vital for all pregnant women and adolescent girls. But those who live in low- and middle-income countries often go without.
Roughly 36 percent of pregnant mothers worldwide suffer from anemia, primarily due to iron deficiencies and diets lacking in other essential nutrients. Such deficiencies during pregnancy and breastfeeding can threaten a woman’s own life, as well as increase the risks of stillbirth, newborn death, or long-term health complications for children.
Funds raised through the WTA Foundation and UNICEF partnership will specifically support the CNF’s Maternal Nutrition Acceleration Plan to prevent anemia and malnutrition in pregnant women.
Women will receive Multiple Micronutrient Supplements (MMS), prenatal vitamins that contain 15 essential vitamins and minerals. This intervention offers a simple yet life-changing approach to improving the nutritional status of pregnant women.
Through its support of the Maternal Nutrition Acceleration Plan, the WTA Foundation and UNICEF partnership helps ensure the survival of women and children, empowering them to live to their fullest potential.
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