Please join us to celebrate the
Women’s Empowerment International’s
Annual Meeting, 2012
Sunday, June 10, 2 p.m to 3:30 p.m.
Marina Village Conference Center, San Diego
Register at
http://tinyurl.com/78yxd7m
or 619-333-0026
"Food is a spiritual journey and Hasno took us there."
- Joy Malaise, cooking school participant
On October 9, STAR Center client and chef Hasno Ali prepared dishes influenced by her South African grandmother during two cooking classes at Solana Beach's Center for a Healthy Lifestyle. She showed participants how to make black-eyed pea fritters with hummus, fish stew in coconut milk, and cornmeal mush with radishes and kale. Participants were entertained with Hasno's cooking techniques - Who knew you could so easily remove the hulls from black-eyed peas? - and her stories of growing up in Somalia and cooking daily for her community.
These classes were the second in the "Taste of Africa" cooking series that benefits the Center for STAR Women, WE's business incubator for refugee and other poor women in City Heights.
To see a photo-rich blog of the classes, check out Ani Arambula's blog post: http://www.confessionsofafoodie.me/
The San Diego Union-Tribune also wrote an article about the classes for the Food Section October 2 and included photos and recipes. Check it out at http://www.signonsandiego.com/
news/2011/oct/03/sharing-the-
flavors-of-africa/
To receive information on upcoming classes, contact us at womens.empowerment@cox.net or call 619-333-0026.
How Your Donation Can Transform Lives
Women's Empowerment International (WE) has a simple and direct mission. It provides microcredit loans as small as $50 to very poor women so they can start businesses and create new and better lives.
In partnership with nonprofit "banks for the poor," we work with indigenous women in Mexico and Honduras and with women farmers in Africa. In San Diego, our home, we help refugee women, many of whom have spent a decade or more in refugee camps, become self-sufficient entrepreneurs.
How are we different? We apply 100 percent of your donation to the program of your choice. And, of course, all donations are completely tax deductible.
Our goal is to help the 3 billion people in our world who live on $2 a day or less.
We also hope to transform lives. Our own have been changed by on-going communication with our loan recipients, hundreds of whom have taken $50 and built an entirely new life. With profits from their businesses, they've put waterproof roofs on their houses. Sent their children to school. And when their children got sick, they were able to purchase life-saving medicines.
At WE, we've made it as simple as possible for good people everywhere to come together to fund small loans and truly change the face of poverty.
San Diego, CA 92150-1406