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In A Path Appears: Sex Trafficking in the USA, Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Ashley Judd, Blake Lively and Malin Akerman traveled across the country to investigate a problem that is often overlooked. They visited programs that have successfully implemented support systems to protect girls vulnerable to sex trafficking, rebuild the lives of survivors, and reduce […]
This summer I was driving down a dirt road in Uganda with Canon Gideon, who founded Hope University near Kampla to serve at risk youth and young adults in severe poverty and suffering the effects of HIV/AIDS. We were developing a partnership between women tea farmers in Uganda and the women who work for the […]
No girl deserves to just disappear. Every girl is valuable. These two beliefs guide my life and are what inspired me to found FAIR Girls when I was just 23. It all started my first year of college while studying abroad in Germany. I’m from a small Texas town and had always dreamed of going […]
In a recent interview with Community Cinema, Director and Executive Producer of A Path Appears, Maro Chermayeff, recounted powerful moments from her filmmaking journey including helping police rescue a missing girl in Boston. “We as a team were integrally and directly involved in finding a young girl, missing for over three months,” she revealed. “Suddenly, […]
I was never a passive child. When I was eleven my social studies class re-enacted ancient Greece and the girls had to enter the classroom accompanied by a boy. I refused to come to class and organized a few others to use the class time to rehearse and perform Lysistrata, a Greek play about women […]
This is a story about a business started in a garage. It’s not Amazon or Apple – it’s a far more modest operation, though still with big dreams. Also unlike those tech giants, it was started by a woman. In Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Muhayo Aliyeva is an Uzbek woman entrepreneur who founded Bibi Hanum, a fashion […]
Have you been following our #MyPath campaign on social media? In the lead up to the January premiere of A Path Appears, we asked you to join us in celebrating the paths that lead to a better world by sharing the stories that drive you to make change. We have been flooded with inspiring messages. […]
It’s been 50 days since A Path Appears, the new book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, was released and we have been overwhelmed by the great reviews and comments about the ways it has inspired many. As we begin our path towards the documentary series premiere in January we want to celebrate the acts of […]
I was working in rural Thailand at a school for refugee children from Burma. I went to the restroom and when I came out to wash my hands, I realized there was no soap. I asked the group of students clustered around me if they had any soap at the school and just saw blank […]
When I first met Christina at her home, she was a shy and guarded 15-year old. She was enrolling in the Nurse-Family Partnership® (NFP) program – a maternal and child health program for low-income, first-time moms. I knew from her WIC (Women, Infants and Children Supplemental Food and Nutrition Education Program) referral form that she […]