Please join us for an intimate conversation between Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheryl WuDunn, and Camfed executive director Ann Cotton. The two will discuss the issues that women and girls face in the developing world and what we can do to improve their situation.

The New York Times Magazine recently dedicated an entire issue to the global concerns facing women and girls; award-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have been writing about these subjects for years and their book Half the Sky, Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide was published this week;

the Campaign for Female Education (Camfed), a non-profit that fights poverty and AIDS in rural Africa by educating girls and investing in their economic independence, produced the award-winning movie “Where Water Meets the Sky”;

the Clinton Global Initiative is dedicating a panel to “Investing in Women & Girls” on September 23^rd;

and, Global Nomads Group (GNG), an international non-profit organization that fosters dialogue and understanding among the world’s youth, discusses these issues each year, with more than 15,000 young women and men from around the world.

Details:

Monday, 21 September 2009

6PM cocktails,

7PM-8PM Conversation and Q&A

9PM Screening of “Where the Water Meets the Sky”

Live streaming through FORA.tv

Not-for-profit partner: GNG

Location: Norwood Club, 241 West 14^th Street (between 7 & 8^th Ave), New York  

Tickets: $35 per person in advance, $50 at the door