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Violet Chanya- Making a Difference for Widows and Orphans

Margaret Ngugi Violet Chanya was born in 1949, in the rural Kisorongonyi Village, the semi- arid area of  Taita Taveta County in Kenya. Taita Taveta is plagued by malnutrition and deaths due to AIDS thus the high prevalence of orphans. This has also resulted in many cases of widowed women who work twice as hard to support their children. Unfortunately those who are married still work as hard because many men engage in drinking illicit brews. She schooled to primary level 3 because her father believed girls should not be educated but should rather take care of the goats and assist in home chores and farming. Despite this, she is a firm believer in empowering young girls through education and widows through farming by donating seeds to them and teaching them nutritional values of growing their food. In 2004, she began Mvono Community Centre (MCC) to take care of orphans…

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Ertharin Cousin: On a Mission to end the World’s Hunger

Ertharin Cousin Executive Director of the World Food Programme Ertharin Cousin is the 12th Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme. She was born in 1957 and raised alongside her three sisters in Lawndale, a poor neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother worked in social services, while her father engaged in volunteer community development work. Cousin started her high school education in 1971 at the Lane Technical High School, Chicago, among the first female freshmen and sophomores to be admitted at the school. Lane Technical was rated among the top high schools in Chicago at the time and admitted all male students, prior to the fall of 1971. Cousin graduated in from High School in 1975. She proceeded to the University of Illinois Chicago, where she earned a B.A Degree in 1979. Cousin also studied international law at the University of Georgia School of Law where completed a…

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Reiko Abe: The Face of Japan’s Globalisation

By: Natalie Obiko Pearson Reiko Abe became a civil engineer in Japan, but she couldn’t find a job. An ancient Shinto superstition, made part of Japan’s labor law, held that if a woman entered a tunnel under construction, she would anger the jealous mountain goddess and cause worker accidents. Two decades later, Abe has become the face of Japan’s global engagement as the nation seeks to overcome its image as an economic laggard and a wasteland for career women. Television advertisements featuring her have run on CNN and the BBC. She’s been lauded by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (no relation) for showcasing Japan’s strengths abroad and symbolizing why the country needs to promote more women in a workforce where less than 5 percent of managers are female. The irony is that Abe, 51, had to leave Japan. After overseeing construction safety on Indian metro projects for seven years, she’s been…

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Caroline Boudreaux: A Rural Diamond helping Orphaned Children in India

Caroline Boudreaux was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1972. She was born into a very loving and supportive home, the youngest of nine children. Boudreaux graduated from the Louisiana State University, where she earned a degree in Psychology. She is married to Ed Goble, and she had a career as an account executive with a TV station in Austin, Texas until 2000. At 28, Boudreaux and a friend traveled around the world on a vacation. While in a small village in India, the two women met a young boy, and out of compassion, her friend had sponsored the little boy. They witnessed first-hand how far her donations went to help the child and his family, and few days later, they were invited to the home of a local family that had taken in several orphaned children, but they could have never prepared for what they witnessed. In Boudreaux’s words to…

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Rosalind Brewer-  Breaking Through Uncharted Spheres

Rosalind G. Brewer is the President and CEO of Sam’s Club (a division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.). She was born in 1962, a native of Detroit, United States. She attended Detroit Cass technical High School, and proceeded to Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, where she earned her B.Sc. in Chemistry. She attended an advanced management program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and she is a graduate of the Director’s College at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business/Stanford Law School. Prior to joining Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Rosalind served as a high-impact strategist with experience spanning global manufacturing operations, research and development, marketing and strategic business unit leadership. She started her career as a scientist in Nonwoven Technology and Product Development of Kimberly-Clark Corp., and eventually became vice president of the Nonwoven Fabrics Business, where she revitalized an underperforming business unit and grew sales by…

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South Africa’s First Black Female Pilot Is Helping Other African Women Take Off

Asnath Mahapa was fascinated by planes as a teenager; little did she know she would break boundaries with them by becoming South Africa’s first African female pilot.

“It just dawned on me that those big things that we see in the skies, someone is actually in charge of them,” she told CNN. “I thought if someone can fly this thing that means I can also do it.”

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Samira Assabahi – A Symbol of Hope for Yemeni Widows

Samira Assabahi is a Yemeni Widow, who has devoted her life to the humanitarian service of helping widows.

Assabahi got married after graduating from high school in 1996; she lost her husband one month later. Suddenly finding herself a widow, she decided to continue her education. Assabahi enrolled to study Law at the University of Sana’a, where she received her degree in 2002. On completion of her studies, she went on to obtain a diploma from the Program of Qualifying Young Female Leaders

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