Join me for the 2014 United Nations Association of Greater Boston’s Women’s Forum celebration of International Women’s Day, Inspiring Change: Educating Girls to Break the Cycle of Poverty.
This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “Inspiring Change,” celebrating the social, political and economic achievements of women while focusing world attention on areas requiring further action; advocating for women’s advancement everywhere in every way.
Women’s Forum will be screening my film GRACELAND GIRLS followed by a panel discussion on the power of educating women and girls to eradicate poverty.
Panel will include:
Jordan Salvatoriello, M.F.A. – Director of GRACELAND GIRLS
Dr. Richard Rowe - Chairman/CEO of the Open Learning Exchange
Monte Allen - Senior Director, CARE USA
When & Where
MCLE - 10 Winter Place
Boston, MA 02108
From 5:30 pm to 8 pm
TO PURCHASE TICKETS CLICK HERE ($15 per)
GRACELAND GIRLS provides an intimate look at how the high school students at Graceland Girls School in Kenya have defied the odds, proving that adolescent girls are the cornerstone for development. The girls express the beauty and pressures of empowered Kenyan girlhood and share their personal struggles to find hope for a better future.
