Fair Trade
Together Women Rise’s online Marketplace features beautiful items, handcrafted by artisans around the world. Your purchases support these artisans, many of them women and girls, and also provide a portion of sales back to Together Women Rise.
Try spice blends, like Ethiopian Berbere or Ras el Hanout to elevate your menu. The mission of Rumi Spice is to use spice as a force for good. It direct sources the highest quality spices from rural farmers and women in Afghanistan to help provide reliable wages and economic stability. Rumi Spice is on a mission to create connections to the vibrant culture of the Middle East, its delicious food, and its people. It believes that when Americans are shown the story of the Afghan people, they can come to know the vibrancy of the region and people, not just war and strife. Rumi Spice’s mission is to create those connections and with them, peace. It is the largest private employer of women in Afghanistan. As of 2023, Rumi Spice supports 10,000 livelihoods in Afghanistan, and hopes to be supporting 100,000 livelihoods within the next 5 years. Shop HERE and 10% of your purchase will be donated to Together Women Rise.
Books
Non-Fiction
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
By William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
Recommended by Shared Interest
From Amazon: William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small village a set of luxuries that only 2 percent of Malawians could enjoy: electricity and running water. His neighbors called him misala—crazy—but William refused to let go of his dreams. With a small pile of once-forgotten science textbooks; some scrap metal, tractor parts, and bicycle halves; and an armory of curiosity and determination, he embarked on a daring plan to forge an unlikely contraption and small miracle that would change the lives around him.
By Legson Kayira
Recommended by Shared Interest
From Amazon: Legson Kayira was just 16-years old when he set out on his epic journey from a small rural Malawian village to the United States of America in his quest to realise his seemingly impossible dream. Walking barefoot, and carrying food for five days, an axe and two books, he travelled more than 2,500 miles through the African bush.
Films
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Recommended by Shared Interest (Currently available on Netflix)
From Shared Interest: Filmed locally and using many local actors, Chiwetel Ejiofor learned Chichewa for the role of William’s father.
A housemaid, who is sexually abused by her boss and made pregnant, is forced to give up her son in order to go on with her education. Six years later she comes back to claim her son. A moving story about sexual abuse, women rights and the legal justice system in Malawi that tackles universal themes in an African setting, helping understand modernization and democratization processes. PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
