Recent News

Spring 2010

Sakena Yacoobi featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review

September 2009

Sakena Yacoobi featured in book

 by Kristof/DuWunn

There's a new focus on women worldwide. The New York Times magazine dedicated an entire issue one week in August to women in the developing world.  Of particular focus was a newly launched book written by the well-known Pulitzer prize winning couple Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl DuWunn titled:

Half The Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. 

For more information go to this link : Half the sky

National Geographic

AIL and CHI mentioned under "grants awarded "in National Geograhic's Afghan Girls Fund Stewardship Report 2006 http://www.nationalgeographic.com/donate/pdf/AfghanGirlsFundStewardship.pdf

February 2008

Christian Science Monitor

Article including Sakena Yacoobi

thttp://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0307/p04s01-wogn.html

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