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The SOS Monthly EZine translates complicated global issues, related to the empowerment of women, into EZ to understand

and EZ to respond to action items for Save Our Sisters members. In this issue:

July 2010 -- Empowering Women with the Opportunity to Earn a Living

In the United States prior to World War II, only a small percentage of women worked outside of the home. When the US

entered the war, women were pulled in to run the factories, build the tanks, and make the bullets - oh and to take care of the

house and kids when they got home! Women were basically running the country and doing a pretty good job of it. When the

war was over, the men wanted their jobs back, but many of the women, having tasted the new found empowerment that

comes with earning your own money, were not so willing to give it up. It was during this transformational time in the United

States, that the roots of the womens liberation movement were born. This movement was created, organized and managed

by women, for women. These brave women who came before us knew that they were not just fighting for their own right to

vote, right to own property and for the right to equal pay for equal work; they understood, through great personal sacrifice,

that their efforts would benefit all women, throughout history and would allow you and I to enjoy a level of freedom (today)

reserved for very few countries in the world.

It is this torch, the torch of empowerment, that Save Our Sisters carries for the women of other worlds that need our

leadership. About half of the worlds women exist within a version of reality that would be unrecognizable to most of us.

Without an education, a means to support themselves or without the right to own property, many women (and their children)

are left vulnerable to the world. To give you just one example of the vulnerability of women in some countries, in many

countries women cannot own property, so when her husband dies (which is most likely when she is still young, because

women marry (or are forced to marry) men much older than they are) she and her children can (and often are) thrown out on

the street by her husbands male family members, who lawfully now own the deceaseds property and belongings.

Save Our Sisters seeks to connect our members with valuable international

organizations that are already effectively helping to empower women within

their localized organizations. Each month the SOS EZine will give you several

EZ (small) things that you can do that will help promote the cause. Like

subscribe to the SOS You Tube Channel, Like us on Face Book, then post

your thought, read our highlighted book of the month and encourage your

friends to join SOS.

With the SOS partner, KIVA you can loan as little as

$25 to help a women start a small business.

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SOS Highlighted Partner of the Month for July:

Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, for

the sake of alleviating poverty.

Kiva empowers individuals to lend to an entrepreneur

across the globe. By combining microfinance with the

internet, Kiva is creating a global community of people

connected through lending.

Kiva was born of the following beliefs:

People are by nature generous, and will help others if given the opportunity to do so in a transparent, accountable way.

The poor are highly motivated and can be very successful when given an opportunity.

By connecting people we can create relationships beyond financial transactions, and build a global community expressing support and encouragement of one another.

Save Our Sisters encourages all of our members to visit the KIVA website, even if you dont give a loan you can still join the SOS KIVA Lending Team. If you do give a loan, please join the SOS Lending Team so your loan help our group reach our goal of $5,000. Either way, please post about it on the SOS Face Book page as well friend KIVA on your Face Book page, tell your friends about it. The pictures you see in these issues are the face of KIVA. You get to know the person you are helping and you get regular email updates about your investment.

Through awareness, advocacy and action Save Our Sisters promotes

urgent social change for extremely impoverished women all over the

world and lends our voice to the movement of the global

empowerment of women.

AWARENESS

SOS promotes awareness of a vast number of topics related to the

global empowerment of women through our bi-weekly EZine, website

and in-home events.

ADVOCACY

Through the SOS EZ Advocacy Program members are provided with a

one-sheet overview of a current issue related to the global

empowerment of women and provides an EZ Action Item, it takes a just

a few minutes each month to participate.

ACTION

The Five EZ Things are a quick list of creative and easy tactics that

members can learn about and react to. The SOS EZ plan is like fast-food,

but fast-compassion (but without the calories).

SOS Leadership Positions Available If you are

interested in taking your SOS commitment to the

next level, contact us and we will email you a

Leadership Package. In as little as 2 hours per week

you can be part of the SOS Leadership Team.

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NEW!!! Save Our Sisters - You Tube Channel

SOS just launched a national You Tube channel featuring a unique (and growing) library of short videos, all related to the

causes of the global empowerment of women. We are looking for subscribers and programmers to help keep the channel

current. It is free and offers another EZ way that you can help the cause (in a few minutes a week).

1. Follow this link and click on the yellow subscribe box in the upper left hand corner of the screen. Then stay tuned

for updates as new videos are posted and watch them.

2. View our videos and click on the thumbs up to like each video and then please comment on them.

3. Post the You Tube link on your Face Book page and forward to your friends.

4. If you also want to help program the channel, then start looking for new You Tube videos that you think will further

our cause, like them and they will be posted on the channel for all to see.

Banker to the Poor (Muhammad Yunus) - KIVA is a microfinance organization, but it wasnt the

first one. The concept of microfinance began with a man called Muhammad Yunus. The

revolutionary story of how microfinance was created (by empowering the poor people of the

world to pull themselves up from poverty) is told in this book. Yunus received the 2006 Nobel

Peace Prize for his work with the creation of the Grameen Bank; it is all beautifully outlined in the

Save Our Sisters Book of the Month, Banker to the Poor. Read it and post on our Face Book

page about it. Email us with your suggestions for next months book.

Save Our Sisters - SOS BOOK OF THE MONTH

FOR JULY

Membership Drive Host an Event in your home

SOS has formed partnerships with well-established

international humanitarian womens organizations who

are actively (and efficiently) engaged in supporting the

problems specific to their area. SOS acts as a feeder

organization by funneling the collective efforts of our

members to the efforts of these groups, while also actively

engaging in local projects and events.

We do thisby driving membership. It is FREE to join SOS,

so please tell your friends about us.

Our primary driver of new members is through our

Tupperware-style interactive in-home event presentation.

Please consider hosting an event in your home, its a great

way to connect your friends with a cause they may have

been blind to.

SOS Quick Facts Things you can share with a friend in

15 seconds or less.

SOS was founded in Orlando, Florida on 1/11/10 as an

expression of an existing global movement in support of the

empowerment of women. But we are NOT a part of larger

organization. We are the mother ship as they say and we

hope to grow our membership base to all 50 states by the

end of 2011.

It is not about one problem, not about one solution, but it

is absolutely about one sex - women (and girls).

SOS is highly invested in understanding the global issues

that face women: sex trafficking, slavery, rape as a

weapon, genital mutilation, honor killings, childhood

marriage and maternal mortality.