Global Innovation Dialogue:
A Walk at Midnight
Journeying with abused women and girls towards inner dignity and wholeness
with Catherine Wanjohi
Thursday, April 7
Santa Clara University School of Business
Lucas Hall, Forbes Family Conference Center (Room 126)
Registration 6:00 PM
Program and Reception 6:30 - 8:30 PM
$20 online registration ($25 at the door) Register here >>
SCU students, faculty and staff free RSVP here >>
Note: $6 parking permit available at main entrance or parking structure.
After ten years as a teacher and secondary school administrator in Naivasha, Kenya, Catherine Wanjohi left her job to dedicate her life to freeing vulnerable women and adolescent girls from the traps set by poverty, culture, and sex trafficking. In 2003, Catherine founded LifeBloom Serivces International, a non-profit organization whose goal is to offer emotional support, life skills, vocational training and new hope for commercial sex workers, abused girls and women, and poor single-mother households.
Catherine will speak about her work empowering women to help them leave the sex trade, regain self-respect, remain healthy, and keep their daughters from falling into the same traps. She has committed to building a school, the first of its kind in Africa, where women can get education and training to move forward in their lives.
Catherine will be interviewed by Maame Yelbert-Obeng, another GWLN Women Leaders for the World graduate, who spent five years with the Global Fund for Women as Progam Officer for Sub-Saharan Africa, and is now Africa Program Director at the Women's Earth Alliance.
