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What We’re Watching: Documentary Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide on PBS
We’re tuning in tonight to PBS to watch the long-awaited documentary, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. (Airing in two parts, tonight and tomorrow, October 1 and 2, at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT.) With Nicholas Kristof as your guide, as well as Sheryl WuDunn, Hillary Clinton, and activist celebrities America Read more…
Tagged Cambodia, Children, Community, documentary, DR Congo, Education, Ending Poverty, Global Poverty, Half the Sky Movement, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Healthcare, Hillary Clinton, maternal mortality rates, Microfinance, Mothers, Nicholas D. Kristof, Opportunity DRC, Opportunity International, PBS, Sheryl WuDunn, Sierra Leone, strategic partners, what we're watching, Women, women's empowerment
What Does it Take to Ensure Maternal Health Around the World?
If you were an expectant mother, how would you stay strong in the face of a lack of resources and access to proper care? That was the questions on my mind last Monday, April 16, when I attended a screening of Christy Turlington Burns’s documentary “No Woman, No Cry,” along with Opportunity International supporters and Read more…
Chicago Premiere of No Woman, No Cry, Directorial Debut of Christy Turlington Burns
Yesterday afternoon, YAO members, members of the Board of Governors, several of my colleagues and I went to the Chicago premiere of Christy Turlington Burns‘s directorial debut, the powerful documentary “No Woman, No Cry.” It’s part of the Every Mother Counts campaign, which raises awareness and support for maternal health issues worldwide. In her film, Burns shares Read more…
Tagged Africa, Asia, Bangladesh, CARE, childbirth, Christy Turlington Burns, Community, Education, Every Mother Counts, Global Poverty, Guatemala, Health insurance, Healthcare, Latin America, Maternal Health, maternal mortality rates, Mothers, No Woman No Cry, Poverty, Tanzania, U.S., Women, women's health, Women's Philanthropy
