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Thursday, February 12, 2009

olga's girls

I am in awe of 83-year-old Olga Murray, featured in a wonderful San Francisco Chronicle story Sunday (and yes I know it's Thursday). You have to read this story. Murray lives in Sausalito, but travels regularly to Nepal, where her extraordinarily successful program, the Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation gives goats and other domestic animals to families in return for a promise that they won't sell their adolescent girls into slavery. Then the foundation pays for the girls' education. Reading this story is inspiring -- and a kick in the pants for all of us to think more and harder about the world around us...

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Blogger The Public Thinktank said...

Hi -- I tried to reach you by the media contact below, but it bounced back!

I have a radio show on education -- you can check it out at www.publicthinktankradio.org.

I would love to interview you for the show! I want to do a show for Mother's Day on the mother's brain -- and would maybe like to do a similar one for Father's Day! I'd like to have psychologists, and mothers to talk about how our thinking and our brain changes when we become parents, and how parents can stay sharp and continue to grow throughout their lives.

It would be really wonderful to talk more with you. Please email me at bcthinktank@gmail.com. Sorry for this unusual way of reaching you!

Leigh Anne

11:07 AM  

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