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pasta with peanut sauce and tropical
fruits. Hostess Black recited the Dining
for Women Affirmation (see box on
next page).
After dinner, Linda Foster of West
Bloomfield, a retired social worker and
member of Congregation B'nai Israel,
gave a brief presentation about Mali,
one of the largest (geographically) and
poorest countries in Africa. Its 14.5 mil-
lion people, most of whom are illiterate,
earn an average of $1.25 a day. Life
expectancy is age 54 for men and 56 for
women.
The group also watched a short video
about the Tandana Foundation, which
will receive the funds raised this month
at Dining for Women events throughout
the country. The foundation will use
the funds for WomenLEAP (Literacy
Empowerment Awareness Possibilities),
a literacy, numeracy and leadership
training program in the Bandiagara
Circle area of Mali that will enable 900
women to become economically inde-
pendent.
Attendees pay $40 for each dinner,
about what they'd pay for a good restau-
rant meal.
The West Bloomfield chapter raised
more than $700 in October. After that's
added to funds from other chapters,
the Tandana Foundation will receive
$25,000 to $30,000, enough to make a
difference in the Bandiagara Circle area.
WOMEN HELPING WOMEN
Dining for Women was started by
Marcia Wallace of Greenville, S.C.
In 2002, she read about women who
got together for potluck dinners and
donated the money they would have
spent on a restaurant meal to help
needy families.
A few months later, Wallace cele-
brated her birthday by inviting friends
to her home and then passing the
hat. She raised $750 for Women for
Women International. In 2004, with
her friend Barb Collins, she founded
Dining for Women.
Shapiro, who worked for many years
as director of the American Jewish
Committee in Southeast Michigan,
learned about Dining for Women in a
Detroit Free Press article in December
2012. She enlisted her friend Lea
Luger, executive director of Yad Ezra,
to start the local chapter.
"I had always been an ardent sup-
porter of women, but I needed a vehi-
cle to support women and girls around
the world. This was a natural;' Shapiro
said. "It's been a very enlightening and
interesting adventure"
Gail Hines of West Bloomfield,
a retired pharmaceutical company
manager, said she also read the Free
Press article in 2012 and contacted the
national Dining for Women organiza-
tion to get involved. They connected
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