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Making Contact for September 18, 2007
9:30 PM - 10:00 PM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "Women Rising XIII: Enterprising Women"
Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world, fighting for peace, justice, the environment, and civil society. In this program we profile four women entrepreneurs, bravely starting businesses where no one else has ventured and who are leading a worldwide grassroots movement to create micro-enterprise.
Lucky Chhetri started the first women's trekking guide business in Nepal. Jane Kunyiha works with the Baobab Project, making micro-grants for small business startups in Kenya. Brigitte Kitenge created a women's cooperative organization in the Congo for women victims of war, and Rashmi Dixit started a restaurant to rescue indigenous culture in India.
Utilizing voices and perspectives rarely heard in media, Making Contact focuses on the human realities of politics, the connections between local and global events, and creative possibilities for people to engage in hopeful democratic change. Supported by independent funding sources, Making Contact is free to explore corporate connections to national and international policies.
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