Progress is achieved through women.
“Investment in girls’ education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world,” Lawrence Summers wrote when he was chief economist of the World Bank. “The question is not whether countries can afford this investment, but whether countries can afford not to educate more girls.”
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
First Lady Michelle Obama answers calls from children across the country tracking St. Nick through the NORAD Tracks Santa program
Another inspiring woman! Faiza Jama Mohamed, 2008 Africa Prize Laureate (The Hunger Project)
Remarks by Faiza Jama Mohamed, 2008 Laureate, Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger at the Gala Award Ceremony in New York, New York on October 18. Mohamed is now based in Nairobi, Kenya where she is the Director of the Africa Regional Office of Equality Now. She is a key organizer of Solidarity for African Women’s Rights, a pan-African coalition of organizations that successfully campaigned for the adoption of, and is now campaigning for the implementation of, the African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa.
“A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month’s study of books.” - Chinese… http://t.co/XhntCVQ5
A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month’s study of books.