Women Thrive

I’ve been doing a lot of reading this summer of past magazine issues.  Sometimes I save them up and crawl into bed on a cloudy weekend morning and just pour through them.  There has been plenty of time for that this summer!  One article I came across in Body and Soul magazine, wholeliving.com, is was about a women’s rights activist named Ritu Sharma.  She started a non profit called womenthrive.org which is a coalition that seeks to shape policies to improve the lot of women around the globe.  One of the things that Ritu did to understand the plight of impoverished women around the globe, was to  try living on $1 a day.  I love the idea of this program which tries to get the US government to use our aid effectively in the hopes that other counties will sit up and take note as well.  Inspiring!