About Us:
The Bergstrom Foundation focuses on underserved adolescents and youth in high teenage pregnancy contexts
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This focus is rooted in both urgent need and transformative opportunity​
Across the globe, teenage pregnancy remains one of the most persistent and harmful barriers to gender equality. Early pregnancies often cut short girls' education, expose them to unsafe abortion and childbirth risks, and trap them in cycles of poverty and marginalization.
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Yet, unmet need for contraception among youth and adolescents remains stubbornly high. Lack of access to modern methods, restrictive laws, and stigma result in many young women seeking unsafe or ineffective care -- leading to preventable injuries and deaths.
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Strategy:
Targeting countries with both high need and potential for change positions the Bergstrom Foundation to fill a critical niche among donors. The Foundation aims to leverage its flexible, trust-based approach to empower local actors working directly with youth, particularly marginalized groups like indigenous, migrants, Afro-descendant, rural, and LGBTQ+.
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This strategic focus will address multiple drivers of youth and adolescent pregnancy, including lack of access to services, restrictive policies, myths and misperceptions, gender-based violence, and harmful social norms.
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By focusing on youth and adolescents, the Foundation will address an urgent public health and rights challenge and will invest in the leadership and potential of a new generation, creating ripple effects to strengthen gender equality and reproductive autonomy for decades to come.
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Our investments today will help advance gender equality, break the intergenerational cycle of poverty, and help millions of young people achieve their full potential