iZōsh International Spring 2025 Newsletter
A Note from the iZōsh International President When North American women gather for an iZōsh Chapter Event, we learn together. Through our learning, we are exposed to the oppression and exploitation faced by women globally who are living in extreme poverty. The World...
Book Review: The Last Hunger Season
Book Review by Beryl McHenry, long-time supporter of iZōsh International Reviewer Beryl McHenry The Last Hunger Season, by Roger Thurow, is a brilliantly constructed book about the glaring consequences of traditional agricultural practices in Kenya, and their effect...
iZōsh International Spring 2024 Newsletter
A Note from the iZōsh International President Earlier this month, we celebrated International Women’s Day (March 8). Naming days such as this help us pause and remember women who are living in extreme poverty. We pause to celebrate their stories of bravery and...
What Does Potential Look Like?
What is our potential? What is it we were made to accomplish and become? I hope that when you think about this question, it stirs in you dreams and possibilities that make you come alive! What can we become? What would the world be like if we were all able to fulfill...
In focus: Ending FGM & child marriage
This blog highlights the work of World Vision, one of the organizations we work alongside as we support women in extreme poverty. The information and story is shared with permission and can be found in the January 2024 edition of the World Vision Strong Women Strong...
Celebrating our Fall 2023 iZōsh Chapter Events
Our fall 2023 iZōsh Chapter Events were ushered in with bell-clad Rwandan dancers and a powerful story told by a Rwandan basket weaver in Maine. iZōsh Birmingham hosted a reflective and empowering event where women were encouraged to look deeper within themselves to...
iZōsh International Fall 2023 Newsletter
A note from the iZōsh International President iZōsh® Chapter Events Impact Globally! Since the creation of iZōsh Chapters, I have watched Chapter Leaders creating excellent, engaging, informative, compassionate iZōsh Events. The women who make up our Chapter...
Ellen’s story — Moving out of extreme poverty in Zambia
In 2018, Ellen (age 43) helped form the Kulijamia Savings Group in Zambia to help herself and others in her community who needed capital to expand their struggling businesses. At the time, she had a small garden that yielded enough to feed her family and sell at...
When Women Choose to Invest in Women
Written by Amy Kuhl, iZōsh International Media Manager. Amy has been part of iZōsh International for a year and also works with World Relief as their Resiliency Programs Manager based in Washington. She has spent nearly a decade overseas living at the edge of war and...
Economic Empowerment Works!
Georgia and her husband, Steve, in Honduras tasting coffee from a thriving co-op. Georgia McCoy, a member of the World Vision National Leadership Council and the Strong Women Strong World Council, shares her observations from a recent vision trip to see World...
Book Review: The Last Hunger Season
Book Review by Beryl McHenry, long-time supporter of iZōsh International Reviewer Beryl McHenry The Last Hunger Season, by Roger Thurow, is a brilliantly constructed book about the glaring consequences of traditional agricultural practices in Kenya, and their effect...
iZōsh International Spring 2024 Newsletter
A Note from the iZōsh International President Earlier this month, we celebrated International Women’s Day (March 8). Naming days such as this help us pause and remember women who are living in extreme poverty. We pause to celebrate their stories of bravery and...
What Does Potential Look Like?
What is our potential? What is it we were made to accomplish and become? I hope that when you think about this question, it stirs in you dreams and possibilities that make you come alive! What can we become? What would the world be like if we were all able to fulfill...
In focus: Ending FGM & child marriage
This blog highlights the work of World Vision, one of the organizations we work alongside as we support women in extreme poverty. The information and story is shared with permission and can be found in the January 2024 edition of the World Vision Strong Women Strong...
Celebrating our Fall 2023 iZōsh Chapter Events
Our fall 2023 iZōsh Chapter Events were ushered in with bell-clad Rwandan dancers and a powerful story told by a Rwandan basket weaver in Maine. iZōsh Birmingham hosted a reflective and empowering event where women were encouraged to look deeper within themselves to...