November 12, 2009
Charity Promotes Women's Role in Fight Against Hunger Via Hundreds of Book Clubs
Miguel Samper for Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps encourages members of book clubs who read the book "Half the Sky" to not only discuss how raising women's status can fight global hunger, but to raise money and recruit other people for the cause.
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Miguel Samper for Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps encourages members of book clubs who read the book "Half the Sky" to not only discuss how raising women's status can fight global hunger, but to raise money and recruit other people for the cause.
On the fourth Monday of each month, Rufi Natarajan gathers with
friends at a Houston café for a book-club meeting. The conversation
begins at 6:30 and typically lasts for two hours - but one recent
discussion is continuing well beyond that. Ms. Natarajan's book
group is one of more than 430 that are participating in a project
by Mercy Corps, the international aid charity, centered on a new
book by the journalists Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
The book, Half the
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