APROSAF Midwives in Congo Fuel Lifesaving Rescues with Briquettes

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APROSAF midwives in Congo demonstrate unbelievable courage in trying to save women’s lives.Huffington Post has published a followup to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Congo.

Secretary Clinton wrote about the Mugunga Internally Displaced Persons Camp in Goma. The American press had little interest in covering the horrors Mrs. Clinton saw on her trip, preferring to focus on the infamous question directed to her in the equally-infamous Congo press conference.

Georgianne Nienaber shares details about a project between Virunga National Park and Association pour la Promotion de la Sage Femme, a group of 118 midwives who also act as community leaders.

The respect they garner results from selfless dedication as they transport pregnant women and rape victims, sometimes by carrying them on their backs, to get help. They do this without pay and subject themselves to rape and shootings along the way.

These unbelievably courageous women will receive $20 a month to establish a brisquette business, converting refuse into fuel and then selling it for $.50 a sack. If the women repackage refuse, the trees won’t be cut down in Virunga Park, home to the last remaining mountain gorillas, but also a source of fuel.

Will Queen Rania Carry a Sarah's Bag to Today's 'The Big Read' Speech at the National Press Club?

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QUEEN RANIA'S SPEECH AT THE LAUNCH OF GLOBAL ACTION WEEK 2009 - WASHINGTON DC, USA

Will Queen Rania Carry a Sarah's Bag to Today's 'The Big Read' Speech at the National Press Club?

Queen Rania is in Washington D.C. with her husband King Abdullah, presently meeting with Vice President Joe Biden, and preparing to meet with President Obama at 10am.

No word on whether Michelle and Queen Rania will meet. A Google search is nada. I am crushed if these two women don’t at least share a cup of coffee.

I want these two Smart Sensuality women to ‘hook up’ now. Putting Queen Rania and First Lady Michelle Obama together is total Smart Sensuality combustion.

The Big Read

Queen Rania is speaking this morning at the National Press Club, as part of a global action week calling for quality basic education for all children.

The press conference will launch ‘The Big Read’, a collection of short stories written by education advocates around the world including Queen Rania, Nelson Mandela, Natalie Portman, Alice Walker, Ishmael Baeh and many more. ‘The Big Read’ is part of GCE’s global action week with the goal of bringing attention to literacy and the millions of children around the world not able to go to school.

To learn more, go to The Big Read at Global Campaign for Education.

One of the goals in writing about Smart Sensuality women is not only to get the concept of the sensual, intelligent, socially committed women front and center in our minds, but to help business, advertisers and media understand the Smart Sensuality woman as a consumer.

Meet Sarah’s Bag

This BBC News story Lebanon’prison chic’ goes global is an excellent example of the relationship between the Cultural Creative women and shopping.

O'Keeffe To Chicago | Women's Liberty Not Won

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O’Keeffe To Chicago | Women’s Liberty Not Won

It’s March, and the natural eroticism of the Carversville landscape is simmering gently out of Winter.

Like a woman seeing her husband speaking with a gorgeous stranger at a party, the land shivers with a renewed, thawing sensual excitement.

At moments like this, I think of Georgia O’Keeffe; she is my muse, too. I wonder how Judy Chicago is doing; it’s time to see her Dinner Party.