You're Invited to an evening with Disruptive Women

More connections ... I was just invited to give a short a short talk at an event sponsored by Disruptive Women in Health Care.  I love the name and I love the topic of the evening, The Value of Health: Creating Economic Security in the Developing World. After 35 years working in Public Health related jobs, I started Creative Women seven years ago because I believe that decent paying jobs are as important to women's lives as access to reproductive health care ... or any health care.

I see this all the time when I working with my colleagues in Ethiopia and Swaziland.  In Swaziland, Murrae Stephens, the owner of Coral Stephens, Hand-Wovens, offers free HIV testing every 3 months and helps any employee who tests positive (of course all of this is confidential) get ARVs.  In Ethiopia, Kathy Marshall, another wonderful colleague, told me about one of her young employees who had lost almost all of her teeth and hardly ever smiled.  This young woman saved bits of her salary and eventually bought herself false teeth ... and now has a lovely smile, a healthy daughter, and a job that provides maternity leave and time off for medical care.

If you are in DC on the evening of December 2, come to the National Museum for Women in the Arts, 6-8PM.  Meet others who care about the connection between economic well-being and health, enjoy a small reception and the museum, and perhaps purchase a gift or two from the Creative Women products on display. 

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