International issue and local business
Once again the Washington Post deserves praise for having a story that looks at an international issue (poverty in Brazil) and what a LOCAL person has done about it. (Washington Post Magazine, 12/20/07, Page 5.)
This is a local business story, a "feel good" story and an international issue story.
No need for a foreign correspondent. No need to send anyone overseas. Just someone willing to see the international connection in a local business.
Two Business Women Uplift a Foreign Economy With Lingerie
BY ELIZABETH CHANG
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Heidi Rauch has found a somewhat unusual approach to addressing the problem of global poverty -- she's started a lingerie company.
Heidi, 38, grew up in Buffalo, attended college and graduate school in the District and took a job with the Organization of American States in 1991, fighting drug abuse in poor neighborhoods in South America. One point kept hitting home, she says: "If you can create jobs, you can create a dent in the problem of poverty."
For rest of story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/magazine/making-it/123007.html