How are women working to help end the cycle of poverty for widows? Robin Wright & Heather Leathers from female development Watch Video
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Description: In this edition of Pillow Talk by Pour Les Femmes, Robin Wright speaks with Heather Ibrahim-Leathers, the founder of Global Fund for Widows, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering widows and female heads of households to overcome poverty through skills-based training, job creation, and micro-finance.nnRobin talks with Heather about how the trajectory of Heather’s own life can be traced back to the widowhood of her grandmother who, when her husband died unexpectedly, was a young mothe