Vicki Kennedy to speak at International women event
Staff Writer
2011-04-24
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Kennedy has worked on issues related to health care, guns, homelessness and economic opportunity. She founded Common Sense About Kids and Guns, a nonprofit that attempts to reduce gun violence against children. Kennedy will speak at the luncheon about lost opportunities in assisting children at risk in a global environment.
Kennedy believes that education is key to empowering children and their parents around the world, and there is no better symbol of overcoming those challenges than in Afghanistan, where young girls are routinely excluded from the education system.
That issue is the focus of an upcoming documentary, "What Tomorrow Brings," which will be screened at the luncheon. The feature-length film takes viewers to the pastoral Afghan village of Deh Subz, where an all girls' school — the first in the village — is challenging centuries of conservative social tradition. The film follows the interconnected stories of students, teachers, tribal elders and tenacious school founder Razia Jan who is convinced that educating girls will help lift her country out of war and poverty in ways that bombs or ballots cannot.