[新聞] Yanks help women who survived Rwandan Genocide

看板NY-Yankees作者beckseaton (沒有運動會死)時間16年前 (2010/06/03 11:44)推噓6(6推 0噓 5→)

留言11則, 7人參與討論串1/1

NEW YORK(AP) —Women who survived the 1994 Rwandan genocide are getting a helping hand from the New York Yankees. Assistant general manager Jean Afterman and Mindy Franklin Levine, wife of Yankees president Randy Levine, have joined with Same Sky, a fair-trade company that helps lift women out of poverty by giving them the tools to become self-sufficient entrepreneurs. Same Sky’s first project is with female artisans from Rwanda who are HIV positive. Through Same Sky’s trade-not-aid initiative, the women crocheted bracelets out of hand-blown glass beads. The bracelets are for sale online and at retail outlets in several cities. “We wanted to help the women who were not only left with the scars of losing their families, but who had also contracted HIV from being raped,” Same Sky founder Francine LeFrak said. “We asked them if they wanted aid or trade, and they said, ‘Please give us trade. Please give us an opportunity to have dignity. And give us an opportunity to have a hand up instead of a hand out.’ That’s what we did.” The Yankees held an event attended by Agnes Gasana, wife of Rwanda’s U.N. Ambassador Eugene-Richard Gasana, honoring the women during New York’s game against the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday. In just several month during 1994, 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered in an ethnic genocide. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=txyankeesrwanda -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 59.113.175.18

→

chancewen

06/03 11:47, , 1^F

06/03 11:47, 1^F

推

darkkeeper

06/03 12:27, , 2^F

06/03 12:27, 2^F

推

charlie01

06/03 12:36, , 3^F

06/03 12:36, 3^F