Here at Global Sistergoods, we are lucky to be part of a growing movement of change for women the world over. I recently had the honor of meeting Liz Forkin, founder of SSkeo Designs. Sskeo makes the cutest sandals ever while providing young women in Uganda with an income and a bridge to university.
If you [...]

World Population Day was July 11. How did you honor it?
I read a statement from the United Nations Development Fund’s Executive Director, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid. We’ve written in the past about maternal mortality, and now is the time to revisit it. When women have access to reproductive health care (and by that I mean access [...]

I was thinking about Syria yesterday, mostly because I heard Seymour Hersh on Fresh Air, but also because of this interesting piece  (also yesterday) on PRI about women’s rights in Syria:
Women in Syria: Public Radio International
The piece caught my ear as it’s premise is that Syrian women enjoy quite a lot of freedoms outside the [...]

Beth recommended I watch this CNN piece about women and economic recovery. Jacki Zehner of the Women’s Funding Network supports our assertion that women are the key to economic growth because women invest in their families and communities more reliably than men.
Check it out:
Embedded video from CNN Video

The United States Peace Corps was established today, March 1, in 1961 by Executive Order 10924. John F. Kennedy Jr., first proposed the idea during a campaign stop at the University of Michigan, asking students to give two years of their lives to help people in the developing world. Since 1960, more than 195,000 people [...]