Fair Trade
FairTrade Caravans is a social enterprise believing in people and planet before profit and passionate about the way fundraising is done and how products are purchased. It partners with schools and nonprofits giving back 25% of sales while supporting artisans and farmers around the world. Its fair trade products are made or grown with no child labor, fair wages, safe working conditions, and sustainable practices, ensuring that the producers — many of whom are women — can better themselves, their families, and their communities. Together Women Rise will receive 25% of all sales purchased through this link.
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% of the purchase price by mentioning Together Women Rise in the “Note to Women’s Peace Collection” during checkout. Visit Women’s Peace Collection here.
Books
Non-Fiction
I Laugh So I Won’t Cry: Kenya’s Women Tell The Story Of Their Lives by Helena Halperin
In I Laugh So I Won’t Cry, Kenya’s women tell their stories of love, struggle, happiness, and tragedy in their own words. The book strikes a balance between intimate acquaintance and a comprehensive view. In-depth portraits allow readers to know a diverse selection of women intimately. Topical chapters feature the voices of a large range of women talking about the subjects closest to their hearts: marriage, childrearing, work and getting by when there is no work, women’s self-help groups, female genital mutilation/cutting, ethnic tensions, and the new government that has promised huge reforms. I Laugh shows the full panorama of women’s struggles in sub-Saharan Africa without sacrificing the vivid details of individual lives.
Play Like a Girl: How a Soccer School in Kenya’s Slums Started a Revolution by Ellie Roscher
Author Ellie Roscher uses the creation and ultimate success of the Kibera Girl’s Soccer Academy as a framework to illustrate the need for multi-faceted support to improve girls’ lives – and how sports can be an entry point and springboard.
Play Like a Girl will be featured by the Together Women Rise Book Club in February 2025.
Films
TED Talk from Clean Start Africa Founder Teresa Njoroge
“What I learned serving time for a crime I didn’t commit”
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Available on DVD and streaming and via PBS and Independent Lens
Taking Root tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy – a movement for which this charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration.
Available via streaming or on CD