Join The World Affairs Councils of America Wed. July 9th for a conference call with Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder and President of Women Thrive Worldwide, on her new book Teach a Woman to Fish: Overcoming Poverty Around the Globe. The call will take place on Wednesday, July 9, at 10:00 AM AK. RSVP to [email protected] to receive dial-in instructions. As the old axiom goes: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. But teach a woman to fish, and everyone eats for a lifetime, argues Ritu Sharma in her engaging firsthand account of how women can overcome the forces that keep them in poverty, and how Americans can help facilitate womens upward mobility. She chronicles her travels through four countries -- Sri Lanka, Burkina Faso, Honduras, and Nicaragua -- and the intimate interactions she had with the women living there. Teach a Woman to Fish provides an insiders look at women in poverty, how Washington works, and how change really happens -- from the United States to the rest of the world. Ritu Sharma is a leading voice on international womens issues and US foreign policy. She is co-founder of Women Thrive Worldwide, a non-profit that places the concerns of women and girls living in poverty at the forefront of U.S. international assistance.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 17:56:12 +0000
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