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Changing lives through financial empowerment

ASU Lodestar Center

For the past six months I have worked with YWCA Maricopa County , expanding its Own It Financial Education program , which provides low-income women and families a free education teaching them how to become financially stable and independent. One of the first classes I organized at the YW was for a group of young teenage mothers.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. How do you know that you are making a difference or an impact; how do you measure that?

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