Savina Darzes is dedicated to education.
As a former park interpreter and currently a Scientist in Residence with the West Linn/Wilsonville School District, she loves to show and tell
Urban Dreams
What a Portland thing to do: focus its annual luxury home showcase in a redeveloped portion of downtown Portland.
Three cups of coffee
By Kathleen Finn of Portland Roasting
In Papua New Guinea, we partner with the owners of the Madan Estate to increase the quality of life of growers and their communities. For this particular Farm Friendly Direct™ program, we are helping out with a Women’s Literacy project
Making change in Africa, the Portland way
One of the things people have long admired about Portland is they way we do things – as well as what we do. It’s collaborative.
Well, maybe it’s too collaborative sometimes. Yep, it can take forever on occasion.
But compared to most cities, we make decisions with lots of information from the people who are most affected.
Women working for change — and for their children
By Denise Attwood, co-owner, Ganesh Himal Trading
In 1986, Ganesh Himal Trading started working with the Association for Craft Producers (ACP) in Kathmandu, Nepal. This project, started by Meera Bhatterai, has the goal of helping raise marginalized women’s self-esteem and income generating skills.
Laxmi Maharjan was a woman who had woven all of her life but never seen the money from any of the work she had done. The money she earned had always gone to the male in her life, her father or her husband.