Last Friday night, March 20th, 150 Ann Arbor area women assembled at Huron Hills Church for an evening to gather, learn, give, and celebrate the joy of empowering women in extreme poverty. The theme for the event was Art and Global Women’s Empowerment (pictures are on our facebook page). Our new, beautiful iZōsh sign exemplified…
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Our next iZōsh event is this week, and we hope you are planning to be there, and have invited your friends and neighbors. We are excited to gather again for many reasons, and one of the main ones is our loan recipients. There is a great amount of diversity among the loan recipients. They come…
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Join iZōsh Friday, March 20th, 2015 from 7:00 to 9:00pm at Huron Hills North for an exciting event where we gather, learn, give and celebrate the joy of empowering women. Our next event will address “The Role of Art in Global Women’s Empowerment.” Together we will experience firsthand the impact that art can have…
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Did you watch the premier of A Path Appears, the new series on PBS by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (authors of Half the Sky)? It’s about sex trafficking here in the United States and features some courageous people who are doing something about it. The stories are unbearably heartbreaking and deeply disturbing. Today, however,…
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Excitement is building for our March 20th iZōsh event at Huron Hills Church. We are eager to welcome our speaker, Emmy award winning documentary filmmaker, Sophia Kruz, to share her latest film project about empowering women. Our book for this upcoming event is photojournalist Paola Gianturco’s compelling work: Women Who Light The Dark. In addition…
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On October 24th, we held our seventh iZōsh event, which was one of the most successful to date. Over 150 women from around Ann Arbor gathered to gift a record $13,345 to 39 entrepreneurial women in extreme poverty. That brings our total to $74,864 to 182 women who are making a difference in their lives.…
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The upcoming iZosh event on Friday, October 24 will take us back to our roots and provide a powerful reminder of the impact of micro loans in the lives of women. For part of the evening, we will “become” women in a Zambian women’s savings group as each table participates in a realistic role play.…
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We are excited to introduce Mercy Niwe, our speaker for the October 24th iZosh event. Mercy is an economist who seeks to understand the complex dynamics surrounding international aid from donor countries to third-world recipients in a fight against poverty and its effects. The title of her talk is “Women, Extreme Poverty, and the Economic…
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For our October 24, 2014 iZosh event book discussion, we will revisit Half The Sky’s chapter 11: ” Microcredit: The Financial Revolution.” A compelling quote from Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General, opens this chapter: “It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race. As study after study has taught us,…
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Today, somewhere in a rural village in the developing world, a group of women will sit down in a circle, and pass a basket. They will say their names: “Elfinish,” “Awa,” “Rosalinda,” “Winnie,” and place their dues in the basket, often the equivalent of less than $0.10 US dollars. One woman may make a proposal,…
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