October Book Club Announced
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women, Thursday, October 28 from 6:30 – 8:30
When: Thursday, October 28, 2010 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Where: Life Enrichment Bookstore, Columbia City, 5023 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle map
Book: Half The Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Cost: Free!
RSVP: Not necessary for this month. Just get the book and start reading!
Contact: For more information about the Net Impact book club, contact Shara Senior.
“Stunning . . . [Half the Sky] belongs on the ‘must-read’ list because it offers perspective, insight, and clear-eyed optimism for why and how each of us can and should meet one of the great moral and humanitarian challenges of our times.” -Bill Gates, Sr., The Huffington Post
For this meeting, the Net Impact Book Club will join the RESULTS Book Club to hear a panel discuss the book and the issues raised by the authors, including forced prostitution, trafficking, gender violence, maternal mortality, and how the most effective way to fight global poverty is to unleash the potential of women.
The following dynamic women will be speakers for the panel:
- Anisa Mohamed Ibrahim, a 2nd year medical student at UW and volunteer with the medical student-run Al Shifa clinic serving low income people without health insurance, will provide a brief synopsis of the book
- Dr. Laura Hart, a RESULTS activist, past President of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, and a Seattle urologist who travels the globe training and assisting physicians to do surgery on women with fistulas from childbirth injuries
- LueRachelle Brim-Atkins works with Cultural Reconnection Mission (CRM). This group of African American women has several sustainable joint ventures in Kenya, East Africa and Ethiopia, including libraries, water projects and women’s economic development projects.
- Someireh Amirfaiz is Executive Director of Refugee Women’s Alliance (ReWA), a Seattle nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive services for refugee and immigrant women and their families, including programs to assist refugee and immigrants impacted by domestic violence, human trafficking and sexual assault.