Week of February 13, 2010
Jessica Markowitz
http://www.richardsrwanda.org/
Jessica Markowitz, founder of Richard’s Rwanda, a non-profit organization that helps finance the education and mentoring of girls in Rwanda.
Description
At an age when most teenagers are saving up money for iPods, Nintendos or just to hang out with their friends, Jessica Markowitz has a bigger vision. Over the last three years, she and some of her Seattle classmates have raised enough money to put 22 Rwandan girls into a private school.
The girls might never have gotten an education otherwise. It all started when Jessica was in the sixth grade and a man from Rwanda came to visit. She talks with Peggy Wehmeyer.
