A Thousand Sisters | by Lisa Shannon

Find Your Own Furaha

Before you click to the next page, check your email, make dinner plans, or remember it was one more thing you meant to do . . . Invest a few minutes. Build a movement. Change the world. You have more power than you know.

1. Change her life. And yours.

Sponsor your own Congolese sister.
3 minutes, $27 per month.

RunForCongoWomen.org (Click Sponsor icon & choose Democratic Republic of Congo as your 1st, 2d, and 3rd choice of country to be certain of being assigned a Congolese sister.)

2. Run (or walk or bike or swim or whatever) for Congo Women.

Do what I did and dedicate a solo run to women in the Congo. Or register for a Run for Congo Women near you. Or ask 12 friends to join you on a short run, each of you pitch in $30 and—ta-da!— you have enough to sponsor and change a woman’s life.
1 hour–6 months, starting at $30|RunForCongoWomen.org

3. Join the Raise Hope for Congo Campaign.

1 minute|RaiseHopeForCongo.org

4. Share A Thousand Sisters with friends. Start a book club.

Available on preorder at www.Amazon.com now at great savings.

2 hours

5. Order a copy of Lisa Jackson’s film The Greatest Silence. Host a screening in your home, then ask your guests to sponsor a woman in Congo.

2 minutes to order the film, plus 2 half-days to plan and host the gathering, $29.95|TheGreatestSilence.org

6. Protect Congo’s forests. Support conservation work in Congo through Eric’s North American partners Zerofootprint.

2 minutes|ZeroFootprint.net

7. Urge President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to craft and implement an intelligent, comprehensive, diplomatic strategy to permanently deal with the Interahamwe, a.k.a. the FDLR.

2 minutes|Whitehouse.gov/contact

8. Friend me on Facebook.

I post the latest news from Congo daily.
2 minutes|Friend me on Facebook!|Become a fan of A Thousand Sisters on Facebook!|Become a fan of Run For Congo Women on Facebook!