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OCTOBER 16, 2009

Women are more skeptical of advertising than men are because they feel like someone's trying to get one up on them, and so they want to know that real people are engaged in an organization, and that they're hearing real-life stories. I sponsor her for a low monthly fee, and we write letters back and forth to one another.

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MAY 13, 2009

This is my second year as a "sister," which means that I pay $27 a month to support one woman for a year while she goes through a program to help her rebuild her life after war. She also goes through a vocational skills and business skills training track, where it ends up giving her tangible skills, so she can get a job.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

My favorite social action was being a sponsor for Jacinta Onoro, a Nigerian woman participating in Women for Women International. Women for Women International supports women survivors of war in conflict and post-conflict areas (Afghanistan, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan).

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

The show ended, and I immediately signed up to be a Women for Women International sponsor. Here is a small excerpt from Honorata's story from the Women for Women International site : "It was in 2002 that the world turned upside down and Honorata lost the signs of a "true and nice life" that she and her husband had built.

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