Deeply enjoying #ONEmoms dispatches

October 9, 2012 · Filed Under Feminism, Internet Media 

From Karen Walrond (yum, coffee):


And Christine Koh:

 

And Liz Gumbinner, on the incredible scarves at FashionABLE:

 

I’ll be buying the FashionABLE scarves for everyone I know this holiday. Handmade by women artisans, each scarf is gorgeous and has a story. As Liz writes of FashionABLE:

Dig further and you learn that it’s a non-profit, meaning all the proceeds go towards helping the artisans, not only through wages but with medical care, medicine for TB or HIV, counseling, a housing stipend, educational tools and daycare for their children.

Two of the women from fashionABLE plainly described their lives to us before they connected with Women at Risk and FashionABLE. Saba is 23. She as educated and living well until she turned 11 and her father died. The money ran out, her mother could no longer care for her, and moved away to live with relatives who never accepted her as their own. She tried waiting tables but couldn’t make ends meet. That’s when a neighbor introduced her to the far more lucrative prospect of commercial sex work….

Buy these gorgeous scarves and you’re helping women have better lives.

 

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