McClatchy posted a video discussing the work we’re doing in Afghanistan, highlighting 2011 Alumnae Zarmina Popal. View the video at http://videos.mcclatchydc.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=103780521&item_index=&genre_id=00008877

  By Susan Solovic. Published September 06, 2012  on FOXBusiness     Being your own boss, controlling your own destiny, for many in our country is the American Dream. But starting and building a small business is difficult. That’s why the failure rates are high. Entrepreneurs face myriad challenges from finding the start-up capital they need

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By Dr. Terry Neese, Founder, Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women   No matter how long you are in business, there is always something new to learn. Whether it is becoming more familiar with the benefits of marketing through social media or learning about new products that are available in your field, all small business

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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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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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