Fair Trade
Investing in women is the basis for prosperity and peace in our world, and the Women’s Peace Collection is doing its part. Each item in this online, fair-trade store speaks to this hopeful vision: women’s hands are a force for peace. The site sells jewelry, scarves, baskets, bags and more made by women from around the world who are rebuilding their lives in the shadows of war, civil strife or crippling poverty. All of the products are handcrafted, sustainable and will help empower women entrepreneurs. Together Women Rise receives 10 percent of sales by mentioning Together Women Rise in the “Note to Women’s Peace Collection” during checkout. Visit Women’s Peace Collection here. Offer expires March 31, 2022.Â
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Books
Fiction
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti PlainÂ
By Verna Aardema
From Amazon: In this traditional tale, discovered in Kenya, a young herd boy Ki-pat must find a way to end the dreadful drought that has come to the beautiful Kapiti Plain and save the animals that live there. Authored by Verna Aardema, Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain is a delightful rhyming story full of bright and vivid illustrations by Beatriz Vidal. The cumulative rhyme is a joy to read aloud and a wonderful way to engage young children.
Non-Fiction
By Juliet Cutler
From Amazon: In 1999, Juliet Cutler leaves the United States to teach at the first school for Maasai girls in East Africa. Captivated by the stories of young Maasai women determined to get an education in the midst of a culture caught between the past and the future, she seeks to empower and support her students as they struggle to define their own fates.
Available streaming on Amazon Prime and on DVD and Blu-Ray
Originally shot for IMAX, this film won the Genesis Award for Best Documentary Feature from The Humane Society of the United States for its celebration of the people rehabilitating baby elephants and orangutans orphaned by poaching and habitat encroachment.
Available streaming and MP3