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February 13, 2010Meeting Retrospective:
Women's rights activist Julia Bolz talked about her work in Afghanistan, gaining the trust of the people, and then building schools for girls. The schools were initially primitive, but later became quite sophisticated and large. Julia Bolz is an award-winning Madison native and social justice activist who left a successful legal career to engage, educate and empower the poor in one of the world's most oppressed and impoverished regions. Just months after 9-11, Bolz launched Journey with an Afghan School, a grassroots project organized to build schools for children in Afghanistan. With funds raised across America, she and her teammates have built and repaired dozens of schools, supplied them with textbooks, libraries and athletic equipment, and provided teacher training. In addition to building the schools, which now serve about 25,000 students, mostly girls, Julia Bolz is also committed to building relationships between Afghans and Americans and to demonstrating how each of us can make a difference. Read Julia Bolz's latest Newsletter Recent article about Julia Bolz in the Seattle Times
Public Affairs Speaker Margaret Jankowski talked about her project, in which she distributes donated sewing machines to needy women.
----- Honored Guest Mulu Yayehyirad
Mulu Yayehyirad is an RN who currently works at St. Mary's Hospital. She started a project to provide medical supplies to clinics in Ethiopia which are quite primitive, but essential to the patients who sometimes travel days to get treatment for themselves or their children.
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