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Women Who Light the Dark by Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

Women Who Light the Dark by photojournalist Paola Gianturco (powerHouse books, September 2007) begins with a profile of Betty Makoni and the Girl Child Network in Zimbabwe. GCN is a girl's rights organization which has 350 chapters of 20,000 primary and high school members across the country.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

These are grassroots organizations, and they were helping each other with the most intractable problems that face women everywhere: domestic violence, sex trafficking, disease, discrimination. And, of course, because women's organizations always have too little money, I thought maybe a book would inspire other people to help.