Once again, On Saturday, April 26, almost a hundred women gathered to learn about the oppression of women today. We helped lift women around the world out of extreme poverty by reducing their risk of oppression through the granting of micro-loans. It was another exciting event! A third of our participants were guests, and we…
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Mark your calendars now for our next iZōsh event on April 27, 2013. Please note this is a Saturday morning – and we will meet from 9 – 11 a.m. The book discussion for this event will focus on chapters four and five of Half the Sky. In these chapters, authors Kristoff and WuDunn tackle…
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Congratulations to all on a great iZōsh event! More than a hundred women gathered together on Friday, January 11th, for the purposes of granting loans to women in extreme poverty, discussing the book Banker to the Poor by Muhammad Yunus and learning more about micro-loans from our fabulous speaker, Joan Mussa. We gifted $9920 to…
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Our next iZōsh event is THIS Friday, January 11 at 7pm at Huron Hills Church. We are looking forward to seeing you there! Our guest speaker is Joan Mussa, Senior VP, Director of Mobilization for World Vision. With over 20 years of working with World Vision in the US and throughout Africa, Joan will be…
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Banker to the Poor by Muhammad Yunus In 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Twenty-three years later they won the Nobel Prize for Peace for their work in eradicating poverty. This is an inspiring story of one man’s realization that access to even a…
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Last Friday evening, ninety women gathered together to help make a dent in global poverty, to learn about the stark realities of human trafficking, and to discuss the book Half the Sky. It was a meaningful, celebratory time together and we are thrilled for such a successful kick-off to our first savings group meeting. iZōsh:…
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Women, please join us: Friday, October 19, at 7pm Huron Hills Church, 3150 Glazier Way, Ann Arbor, 48105 Our next iZōsh meeting is less than a week away! We can’t wait to join together at Huron Hills to give micro loans to women in extreme poverty. It’s going to be a fun, celebratory, and informative…
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On October 1 & 2 from 9pm-11pm Eastern time, PBS will be showing a documentary of the book Half the Sky. Click here for local listings. Filmed in 10 countries, following Kristof, WuDunn, and celebrity activists America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union and Olivia Wilde on a journey to tell the…
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn is the book that galvanized us to begin iZōsh:Women Investing in Women. This work is a life-changing piece that transports our minds, hearts and souls from not just our physical locale in Michigan, but our first-world mind-set of…
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On May 12, 2012, 93 women of all ages gathered together for the official launch of a new ministry, iZōsh: Women Investing in Women. Together we learned about the realities of the majority of women today, struggling to feed, educate and care for themselves, their families and their community. Our guest speaker, Ravi Rao, a…
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