Introducing our Afghan 2012 PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® Leadership Development Students! These businesswomen are coming to the USA to partake in our “Business Boot Camp”  at Northwood University in Texasand the International Women’s Economic Summit at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C.    NAME: Farah Deeba Karimi BUSINESS: Karimi Stars Design Inc. When Farah embarked into the workforce as an Afghan woman,

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Terry Neese, who works with women in Rwanda and Afghanistan to help them build businesses, poses with a soccer ball at her office in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, April 11. The ball was made in Afghanistan. THE OKLAHOMAN DOUG HOKE DOUG HOKE – THE OKLAHOMAN There are humble beginnings, and then there is Cookietown.   Small

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  Share This:  Profile of IEEW Mentor Marion Marshall:  Giving Back is Simply Part of Her World For Marion Marshall, creative director and artist at AbsolutelyBlooming!, a Dallas-based full-service event planning and design production firm, serving as an IEEW mentor was a natural fit for her. She remembers the women who mentored her when she

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Introducing our Rwandan 2012 PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® Leadership Development Students! These businesswomen are coming to the USA to partake in our “Business Boot Camp”  at Northwood University in Texas and the International Women’s Economic Summit at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. NAME: Josephine NYEBAZA BUSINESS: Intra Cargo, LTD Abandoned at seventeen after the death of her

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Check out some of our Afghan and Rwandan 2012 PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® graduates working in their business!   The PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS® program is a training and mentorship program for women entrepreneurs in Afghanistan and Rwanda. This program is implemented through three major components —In-Country Education, Leadership Development, and Pay It Forward—which combine to create

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