[新聞] Yanks help women who survived Rwandan Genocide

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NEW YORK(AP) —Women who survived the 1994 Rwandan genocide are getting

 a helping hand from the New York Yankees.



Assistant general manager Jean Afterman and Mindy Franklin Levine, wife

 of Yankees president Randy Levine, have joined with Same Sky, a fair-trade

company that helps lift women out of poverty by giving them the tools to

 become self-sufficient entrepreneurs.



Same Sky’s first project is with female artisans from Rwanda who are HIV

 positive. Through Same Sky’s trade-not-aid initiative, the women

crocheted bracelets out of hand-blown glass beads. The bracelets are for

sale online and at retail outlets in several cities.



“We wanted to help the women who were not only left with the scars of

losing their families, but who had also contracted HIV from being raped,”

 Same Sky founder Francine LeFrak said. “We asked them if they wanted aid

or trade, and they said, ‘Please give us trade. Please give us an

opportunity to have dignity. And give us an opportunity to have a hand up

instead of a hand out.’ That’s what we did.”



The Yankees held an event attended by Agnes Gasana, wife of Rwanda’s

U.N. Ambassador Eugene-Richard Gasana, honoring the women during New York’s

 game against the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday.



In just several month during 1994, 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered in

an ethnic genocide.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=txyankeesrwanda

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