Women’s Enterprises International is dedicated to creating opportunities that equip women in developing countries to overcome poverty and transform their lives and communities. We do this by partnering with indigenous women’s groups in development projects that provide solutions to three systemic causes of poverty; lack of access to water, lack of access to business capital and limited access to education for girls.
Thank you for your interest in Women’s Enterprises. We invite you to join us in bringing lasting change in the lives of women and girls around the world.
Walk for Water
Plan to join WEI’s 2nd Annual Walk for Water Sunday, May 23rd at Seward
Park in Seattle.
Experience a Kenyan woman’s daily walk for water (2.5 – 10 miles) and
help women and families in Kenya obtain clean drinking water! Join friends
here and friends in Kenya as we walk to raise funds to match 20 new water
catchment systems for families in desperate need of clean water.
Invite friends and family to sponsor you or to walk with you. Join us
for a fun and meaningful experience!
When: Sunday, May 23rd - 1:30 p.m.
Where: Seward Park, 5900 Lake Washington Blvd South,
Seattle
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We invite you to view
a short video produced by National Geographic entitled "Burden
of Thirst" to see what women in Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania
face on a daily basis. This is why we "Walk for Water and invite
you to join us." (Click on "Water: A Special Issue / The Burden
of Thirst")
Directions to Walk for Water:
This note is to advise you to please check your route when you are coming
to Seward Park on Sunday. Lake Washington Blvd. will be closed for the
"It's a Walk in the Park"-- Bicycle Sunday.
If you are coming from I-5, take the Albro Place Exit (Exit 161) toward
Swift Ave., it will lead you to S. Orcas St.
Take a left on S. Orcas St. and head east all the way to Lake Washington
Blvd. (1.3 miles), turn right and go 1 block, then left into Seward Park.
You can park in the big parking lot there. The Walk will start from Shelters
1 & 2 near the parking lot.
Book Forum
Join us in reading and discussing book selections that will inspire,
educate and introduce us to new authors.
University Presbyterian Church
4540 15th Avenue, NE, Seattle, Room 385
May 3, 2010
UPC 7:00 pm
"Tears of the Desert" by
Halima Bashir
This memoir of a village doctor is the first ever
written by a woman caught up in the war in Darfur. Learn how we can respond
to this crisis.
June 7, 2010
UPC 7:00 pm
"The Hole in Our Gospel" by Richard
Stearns
Hear firsthand how a CEO faced his own struggle
to obey God, whatever the cost, and his passionate call for Christians
to change the world. Guest speaker: Richard Stearns.
