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DECEMBER 28, 2006

So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia." We brought a group of ten environmental justice lawyers from throughout North America to work in partnership with grassroots women leaders in Bolivia, with the focus on sustainable agriculture and food security issues.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

If your angle is using this training as an outlet for local empowerment and development, then you very much want to bring in mentorship. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors. They're coming from Nepal, the Philippines, and Bolivia. We think it's because of the mentorship.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. It is very different to interview sex workers who have been trafficked in Phnom Penh, than to interview women who are doing knitting in Bolivia. It is easily the most difficult of the books that I have done.

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APRIL 2, 2008

I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. They were a group of illiterate women who dictated their requests to a priest in the village, who then hand wrote the request. For others, I think it is thinking about making contributions.

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