Ellen’s a savvy mom. She knows the importance of taking care of herself. When life gets tough she dishes out some ice-cream, indulges in a pedicure, and asks her husband to take their kids out for a few hours. Ellen has learned that she needs a chance to recharge. This extraordinary mom of Sabrina, 5, [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘hope’
April 16, 2010
Bold Action by Woman Empowers a Village Against Violence
A women’s worth continues to be undervalued. According to a March 2010 fact sheet put out by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research the median weekly earnings of female full-time workers were $657, compared with male median weekly earnings of $819. Based on these data, the ratio of women’s to men’s median weekly earnings was [...]
March 13, 2010
Yvrose Jean Baptiste
Yvrose Jean Baptiste has only a fifth grade education, yet she has a head for figures. Yvrose was a small-time wholesaler before the catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake hit Haiti on January 12, 2010. Before the earthquake Yvrose borrowed money from a microcredit bank. Every two weeks she’d take a bus to the Haitian border [...]
March 10, 2010
Kathleen in Cancerland
Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos felt as though she’d had an Alice in Wonderland-type surrealistic daydream. She watched her mother battle cancer and then discovered she was going to take a similar journey. The two-time survivor of cancer has dubbed her personal experience an adventure in Cancerland. “Think of it as the intellectual, emotional, and psychic amusement park of cancer [...]
February 18, 2010
It's Not How You Weather the Storm but How You Dance in the Rain
Joy Styles was diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) in the fall of 2009. ALS, often called Lou Gehrig’s Disease, is a neurodegenerative disease. No one is sure how much time Joy has but she has limited use of her hands and difficulty walking. Although 90 percent of people die within five years of their [...]
