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Greetings!
February is the month to take a break from our hectic schedules and celebrate LOVE. February 14th brings Valentine’s Day which means, among other things, hearts, flowers and chocolates aplenty… and who doesn’t enjoy a good Valentine’s Day card? These are all terrific ways to celebrate.
But what is the real meaning of ‘Love’? We looked it up on Wikipedia and found the following: "Love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection… the basis for all being."
It is in this spirit that we’d like to focus today’s SPECIAL ISSUE on two organizations that work to bring hope, respect and compassion to our world in different ways. It is our small way of showing that through marketing we can help make a difference.
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SPECIAL ISSUE 2011:
Two Organizations Offer A World Of Hope
Opportunity International
A Working Solution to Global Poverty.
www.opportunity.org
Opportunity International is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the vision of a world in which all people have the opportunity to provide for their families and build a fufilling life. Their mission is to empower people to work their way out of poverty, transfoming their lives, their children’s futures and their communities.
Opportunity International does just that by providing small business loans, savings, insurance and training to more than two million people in the developing world who are working their way out of poverty. Clients in over 20 countries use these financial services to start or expand a business, provide for their families, create jobs for their neighbors and build a safety net for the future. The impact of what they do can be seen through the stories of those that they’ve helped along the way.
Mediatrice Mukeshimuremyi’s Story: Opportunity Rwanda Helps Local Woman Find Success and Give Back to her Community
Mediatrice Mukeshimuremyi is a mother of two young daughters as well as a farmer. She grows coffee, beans, sweet potatoes, corn and cassava. Before joining Opportunity Rwanda she could only produce enough food for her family.
Then Mediatrice found Opportunity Rwanda. She received training and her first loan of $40 which she used to start a business selling bananas in the market. Soon after she began selling juice, which increased her profit to $14 a week. Mediatrice is currently expanding her juice and vegetable stand to carry cooking oil and other household necessities. She invested the profit to buy two goats, a pig that will be
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Zonta International
Advancing the Status of Women Worldwide.
www.zonta.org
Founded in 1919, Zonta International is a global organization of executives and professionals working together to advance the status of women worldwide through service and advocacy. The organization’s 31,000 members belong to more than 1,200 Zonta clubs in 65 countries, volunteering their time, talents and financial support to local and international service and educational programs benefitting women and girls around the world.
Through the Zonta International Foundation, Zonta International helps women and girls overcome gender barriers to educational and professional advancement; provides opportunities for women to earn higher wages and achieve economic independence; ensures that women and children have access to quality, affordable health care; and strives to end violence against women.
Zonta is actively working to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV and gender-based violence in Rwanda; promote safe cities for women in Guatemala and El Salvador; work towards the reduction of maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity in Liberia; end burns violence against women in Cambodia, Nepal and Uganda; and promote security and empowerment for women and their families during the recovery and rebuilding response in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
In addition, the organization supports women’s educational and professional advancement through a number of programs, including the Amelia Earhart Fellowship, named in honor of the legendary aviatrix and Zonta club member, the Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholarship and the Young Women in Public Affairs Award.
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