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Women Igniting Change |
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SAKENA YACOOBI Sakena Yacoobi is changing the face of education for girls in Afghanistan. To learn more about girls education in Afghanistan and the Afghan Institute of Learning, click here.
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MOTHERS SUPPORT GROUPS These Mothers Support Groups are creating an environment girls education is not only an opportunity, it is an expectation. To learn more about their inspiring story, click here. |
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JORDAN A group of women in Jordan seek to ignite change in their community through providing a voice to women activists. To learn more about Makana, click here.
A group of women in Jordan seek to empower their peers through a clothes recycling program. To learn more about Awaeena, click here.
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CARMEN ORTIZ A breast-cancer survivor who has changed the lives of hundreds of Bay Area Latina women by providing language-based support groups for those who are living with cancer. To learn more about Carmen's story, click here. |
LORNAH KIPLAGAT Lornah Kiplagat, one of Kenya's first great female marathoners, defied Kenya's traditional roles for women at home and on the farm by using her prize money to establish and operate a camp to train the next generation of women runners. Part of the proceeds from Spark's Black and Pink Ball will support Lornah and the High Altitude Training Center.
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salima sarwar Plagued by chronic unemployment and lack of skills and education, nearly 80% of the people in Bangladesh live on less than $2 a day.
The situation is especially dire for women and girls, who have even
fewer employment and education opportunities than men.
The Association for Community Development, founded by Salima Sarwar, addresses this with
programs on literacy, human rights, education, trafficking, as well as an innovative tree-planting initiative that
has helped numerous women gain economic independence.
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These mothers in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico all have one thing in common: their daughters have been kidnapped and killed in a rash of killings that continues even today. They have come together to find justice and hope for the future generation.
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 "aBUHUJUMATIMA" A group of courageous widows in Rwanda come together to rebuild their lives after the genocide. Learn more about the tragedy that they have experienced and about their fight to overcome. |
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