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.
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WEI 2009 Calendars Have Arrived!
The 2009 WEI Calendars have arrived with beautiful photos of the people we work with around the world.
Order your calendar today and order one for a friend. They make great gifts.
Minimum Suggested Donation: $12
Click here to see the photo collage for each month.
To order email info@womensenterprises.org or call (206) 363-0916
Give a Tree this Christmas!
Join WEI women’s groups in Kenya as they work to reforest their region. The 54 women of Woni and Uvuany’o are planting 2,700 trees in their community. WEI is joining in partnership by providing half of the needed trees.
Your gift of just $25 will purchase 50 tree seedlings.
Email info@womensenterprises.org
Monthly Book Forum
Join us in reading and discussing a monthly book selection that will inspire, educate
and introduce us to new authors.
Knox Parlor at University Presbyterian Church
4540 15th Avenue, NE, Seattle.
February 2, 2009 - 7:00pm
“Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife
in Mali”
- Kris Holloway
The compelling story of a midwife who became a legend.
Monique Dembele saved lives and dispensed hope in a place where childbirth
is a life-and-death matter. This book tells of her unquenchable passion
to better the lives of women and children in the face of poverty.
Presentation by Dr. Bill Marks, a Seattle radiologist who has worked in
Mali for many years.
March 2, 2009 - 7:00pm
“Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Childhood”
- Fatima Mernissi
”I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco...” So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams and memories of the women who surrounded her in the courtyard of her youth—women who, deprived of access to the world outside, recreated it from sheer imagination. Dreams of Trespass is an exotic tale selected to help us understand a historical view of women in the Muslim world.
Apirl 6, 2009 - 7:00pm
“White Man Walking: An American Businessman’s Spiritual
Adventure in Africa”
- Ward Brehm
The story of how one man not only crossed mountain ranges but also cultural conventions.
“Ward Brehm’s adventure walking across the terrains of East Africa and his encounter
with the local people became a faith journey that was to change his life forever.
Read this book to discover how one man’s heart was changed once and for all when
he reluctantly accepted God’s calling to see the heart of Africa.” Anna Mkapa, First
Lady of Tanzania
May 4, 2009 - 7:00pm
“There is no me without you: One woman’s obsession to rescue
Africa’s children”
- Melissa Fay Greene
Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman working to save her country's children.
Presentation by Bwayla Melu, former Director of World Vision Zambia, who has a powerful personal story on the impact AIDS has had on his own family.
June 1, 2009 - 7:00pm
“Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept out
of Africa”
- Robert Paarlberg
Nearly two-thirds of Africans are employed in agriculture, yet on a per-capita basis they produce roughly 20 percent less than they did in 1970. Robert Paarlberg explains why poor African farmers are denied access to productive technologies, particularly genetically engineered seeds with improved resistance to insects and drought, which have been a key to reducing rural poverty in other parts of the world.
Join us in what promises to be an intense and informed debate led by Dr. John Vendeland, International Agricultural Consultant.
