Podcast Interview with the Global Fund For Widows Founder Heather Ibrahim-Leathers
Widowhood can kick off a vicious cycle of poverty. The Global Fund for Widows—the world’s largest non-profit organization focused on innovating financial inclusion by working directly with widows – is helping widows build a permanent source of capital so they can launch micro-businesses and build a more sustainable future for themselves and their families.
In this special interview, WI-HER’s Director of Finance & Administration – Sam Kasbari sits down with Heather Ibrahim-Leathers, the founder of the Global Fund for Widows, to talk about the non-profit’s mission and why widows have been historically overlooked in programming and interventions. “When we started doing more research, I realized this is actually a global human rights crisis,” Ms. Ibrahim-Leathers said during the interview. “It’s massive, and no one is talking about it… there’s at least 300 million widows around the world. That’s an official number, but it’s actually massively under characterized.”
Heather also discusses why that number is actually low, the implications of widowhood on the Sustainable Development Goals, and how widowhood can lead to multiple human rights violations, including disinheritance/economic violence, and structural discrimination, among others.
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