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South Valley Review






           VOL. 1, NO. 3                                                                                                             April 21, 2017
                          Better at knowing what matters to you.





                                     A Visit to The UN
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                                                                      Special Assignment
                                                                        Editor at Large
                                                                          Pearl  Baeni
                                                                                                  COCKTAILS FOR LA CAUSA

                                                                   Meirerhofer-Mangeli,                         In Bay Area
                                                                   who is the director of
                                                                   the organization.  Out of            Restaurants and Bars
                                                                   the realization that many
                                                                   households in Eastern
                                                                   Kenya were led by young                         Page 5
                                                                   girls because their parents
                                                                   were deceased.
                                                                      The girls were
                                                                   orphaned due to parents          Our Corner of The Valley
                                                                   dying of HIV and AIDS.                     By Scott Taper
                                                                   So she observed that girls
                                                                   were not going to school
                                                                   because they were busy
                                                                   caring for their siblings                     Page 6-7
                                                                   and that is how the idea
                                                                   of the Resource Center
                                                                   for Women and African
                       Ivy Nyawira Wahito in front of              Girls in Kenya was born.            Breaking Boundaries:
                       United Nations Church Building              She joined together with
                                                                   another organization, a           College of Adaptive Arts
              RCWG: The Resource       Women.                      local ACBO in Machakos,
           Center for Women and           IVY: I work with         Kenya.
           Girls is an organization    the Resource Center            They organized
           that not only seeks to      for Women and Girls         the group RCWG in                            Page 8-10
           empower girls through       (RCWG). I joined the
                                                                   2010. So the camps are
           personal development, but  organization in 2010 as an   basically run for girls
           also hope by this feat to   intern and also a personal   during school holidays
           facilitate positive change   assistant to the director   for a minimum of ten        Continuation: Interview with
           in the communities these9   of the organization. And    days. The girls are taught
           girls live.                 through her mentoring       on sexual reproductive                Ivy Nyawira Wahito
              Ivy Nyawira Wahito       I was able to continue      health and rights, personal
           came to New York to         with the organization       development- which
           attend The Commission       professionally because I    includes emotional                 Our Home Delivery of Papers
           on Status of Women          went to school, studied     intelligence, governance,                 to these ZIP CODES
           Conference held at the      and got a BA in sociology   peace education, and this
           United Nations. I felt      in philosophy. And now      happens for the period of                 95119             95123
           the need to tell the world   I am working full time at   ten days that they are in                95124             95125
           her story; her personal     the organization.           the mentoring camps.                      95032             95008
           development at the             RCWG was founded
           Resource Center for         in 2007 by Zeedah             Continued on Page 8          *Coming Soon*   95037 + 95051


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