U.S.-Afghan women’s meeting set

Published on March 16, 2010, by admin in Uncategorized.

Published: March 16, 2010

WASHINGTON — Terry Neese, the Oklahoma City founder of a group to empower women economic-ally, said Monday she plans to attend a meeting Friday of the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council in Dallas.

Terry Neese, co-founder and chief executive of the Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women.

Neese is a member of the council, a public-private partnership created in 2002 to help Afghan women and children. Neese said former first lady Laura Bush, an honorary adviser to the council, and Melanne Verveer, U.S. ambassador at large for global women’s issues, will also attend.

Also speaking to the council, Neese said, will be Andeisha Farid, who established several orphanages in Afghanistan and attended a program, Peace Through Business, that is part of Neese’s Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women. The meeting is to be held at the George W. Bush Institute at Southern Methodist University.