Weaverville


Native receives grant for El Salvador work


World Connect, a non-profit


organization that empowers local leaders in underserved commu- nities worldwide, is proud to an- nounce it has awarded a grant to Bethany Brooks, originally from Weaverville, to support her work in El Salvador. Tis grant will fund a Women’s


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Collaborative with prior success developing a shampoo microen- terprise to initiate a bee-keeping venture in Canton El Zapote. Tis project will train women in bee keeping for income genera- tion and support a family literacy


Big Ivy Big Ivy Book Club


By Nancy Dillingham Big Ivy Book Club will meet at


10 am on Saturday (May 22) at Big Ivy Community Center, 540 Dillingham Road to discuss “Te Help” by Kathryn Stockett. Te year is 1962 in Jackson, Miss.


óand what has not happened yet is Martin Luther King Jr.’s march on Washington, the assassination of President Kennedy and the Viet-


nam War. Into this milieu comes 22-year-


old Skeeter Phelan, just graduated from Ole Miss with a degreeóbut no husband. Tall, leggy, skinny as a mosquito, Skeeter’s life is at a crossroads. And she sorely misses the companionship of Constantine, the “help,” whom she has kept up a correspondence with during her years away at college. But Constantine has disap-


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peared, and no one will tell her why or where. Tus begins the trans- formation of Skeeter, who can only find a job writing an advice col- umn on housecleaning tips for $10 a week at the local paper. Skeeter solicits the help of a friend’s black maid in writing her column. Disconsolate with her lot, Skee-


ter contacts a woman at Harper and Row who looks at some of her other writing. Te woman suggests she write about something really con- troversialóand thus Skeeter begins her clandestine projectóan expose of black maids in the South. Te misadventures and tragic-


comedy of the events that ensue change her life and the lives of Ai- bileen and Minny, two black maids who help her write the book (and serve, along with Skeeter, as narra-


tors of this book). Tis is a debut novel by Stock-


ett, born and raised in Jackson, who writes in her Afterword : “I’m pretty sure . . . no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like being black in Mississippi working for our white family. I have wished for many years that


I’d been old enough and thought- ful enough to ask Demetrie that question.” She continues: “I was scared... that I was crossing a ter- rible line writing in the voice of a black person.” No worries.


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program. Brooks, currently serving in El


Salvador with the Peace Corps, is sponsoring this project in part- nership with a community leader dedicated to improving the health and well-being of women and children in their village. Te World Connect Grants


program is designed to connect mothers to mothers worldwide to address social problems affecting women, children and communi- ties through health, education and income generation projects. World Connect, formerly In-


fante Sano, is a non-profit organi- zation that empowers local leaders in underserved areas worldwide to solve local problems by improv- ing the health and well-being of women, children and communi- ties. Since 2005, World Connect has contributed millions of dollars through over 230 grants and in- kind gifts, supporting more than 200 communities in 11 countries. To learn more, donate or volun-


teer with World Connect, go to worldconnect-us.org.


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