| There are so many wonderful people involved
at Vital Voices Global Partnership. At this
year’s Global Leadership Awards, one of
them, Maria Pacheco of Guatemala said, “Women
can transform our world.” This is something all of
us at Vital Voices strongly believe.
Last month, I was proud to join Vital Voices,
Diane von Furstenberg, ExxonMobil, Euro
RSCG Worldwide and others to launch the
Women Can campaign, an innovative effort
to bring new partners and leaders together to
invest in women so they can, in turn, invest in
others – multiplying the positive effects women
have on the world around them.
If we want to solve problems of poverty or
illiteracy or conflict or disease, we must engage
women. And when we do engage |
women the
positive effects are clear.
At our recent Vital Voices awards benefit, I was pleased to debut the first of many new
Women Can ads developed by Euro RSCG
Worldwide, highlighting heroines who are taking
on some of the world’s toughest challenges and
making it a better place for all of us.
As the ad says, “We’ve chosen [Liberian]
President Johnson-Sirleaf as the inaugural
figure in our campaign because it was she who
said it best: Women can lift their countries out
of poverty, women can lead their countries
to greatness, women can change the fate of a
nation. Deriving our name from her inspiring
words, Women Can will recognize the
enormous, and too often untapped, potential of
women everywhere in our world.” |
Vital Voices invites you to join us as we
advance the cause of women and our world.
You can visit Vital Voices’ website to learn more,
www.vitalvoices.org.
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