La Parole aux Femmes Magazine (2000): Special Assistant / Co-founder of La Parole aux Femmes (Women Speak Out), a new, social-issue oriented women’s magazine, written by and for Malienne women.  It is, like Women to Women in Ethiopia, a magazine for rural young women written to provide inspiration and information about improving their lives.

Women to Women Magazine (1999): Co-founder/English Editor of a bilingual magazine written by and for Ethiopian women with the goals of providing inspiration and information to all young and older women of Ethiopia. The magazine focuses on all issues important to women, from health to education, women in politics to harmful traditional practices. Our magazine is distributed for free by the British Council in all places women and girls gather. It’s very exciting as young women read to older women and conversations are held that would not be otherwise.
 
Women on Wheels (1999):  Co-founder of a small program within the larger umbrella of The Ethiopian National Association for the Physically Handicapped. We are focused on providing free wheelchairs to handicapped women in Ethiopia.  In 1999 we provided 20, in the year 2002 – 1350 wheelchairs!

Scholarships for Blind Women (1999):  Co-founder of a small program within the larger umbrella of The Ethiopian National Association of the Blind. We are focused on providing full scholarships to nine (9) blind women in higher education in Ethiopia.  In 1999 we provided only three.  Our first recipient graduated from the University of Addis Ababa in June, 2001.  She is the first fully qualified Ethiopian Braille teacher at the School for the Blind in Addis Ababa.