Friday, March 13, 2009

Welcome to the Beyond the 11th Blog

Hi,

I am very new to the blogging thing. I thought that it would be complicated to create a blog but apparently it only took a few clicks of the mouse to get this started.

My hope is that Iwill create posts every couple of weeks to make updates about what we're working on...

I want to post this message so that I can see what it looks like and then I will add a real post soon...

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My husband, David, was killed on September 11th. At the time, we had two small children and I was pregnant with our third. Learning about the plight of widows in Afghanistan, I felt that I needed to reach out to them the way so many had reached out to me and my family. Decades of conflict and strife ravaged Afghanistan, leaving tens of thousands of women without husbands to provide for them, a cultural necessity in Afghanistan. In the fall of 2003, I co-founded Beyond the 11th. Our mission is to help provide financial and emotional support to Afghan widows and their children and to give them hope for a better future. Beyond the 11th’s grants are geared toward programs that help widows gain the skills necessary to generate their own income. We believe strongly that this is the best way to create lasting social change.