This post is part of the Global Mom Relay. Every time you share this blog, $5 will go to women and girls around the world. Scroll to the bottom to find out more. Esther lives just off the main road of a small town in Western Kenya in a mud-walled, tin-roofed home, typical of the area. Despite her meager income, she had spruced up the interior of her home with lace doilies, plastic flowers and framed pictures of loved ones, making the small space inviting and comfortable. Until last year, she … [Read more...]
Celebrating a ‘Mother’s Dying Wish’ coming true!
April 14, 2013 by Team Celebration
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Davos: big questions from top delegates to the World Economic Forum
January 26, 2012 by Team Celebration
How to ensure women's economic inclusion, because economies will not thrive unless we do. This issue stretches all the way from the number of women in Davos and the glass ceiling in the developed world, to helping poor women in the developing world set up their own businesses and survive. (..) The World Food Programme has found that when girls and women earn income, they reinvest 90% of the money in their families. For men, that figure is more like 30% to 40%. Davos: big questions … [Read more...]
Filed Under: AFRICA, ASIA, CENTRAL AMERICA, EURASIA, EUROPE, FEATURED, MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AMERICA, OCEANIA, SOUTH AMERICA, WORLD ISSUES Tagged With: Barbara Stocking, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Cherie Blair, DAVOS, equal partners, Helen Wong, HSBC China, Infosys, OXFAM, SD Shibulal, The World Food Programme, WFP, world forum
