Doing More with Less by Bruce Piasecki

Author:Bruce Piasecki
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118239865
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Published: 2012-01-30T16:00:00+00:00

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I experienced a contemporary example of what I refer to as posttraumatic growth while writing this book. Last year I heard Susan Retik, president and cofounder of an organization called Beyond the 11th, speak at Skidmore College. She spoke with animation and conviction, and I was moved, as were my wife, mother-in-law, and daughter, among others in her audience. Susan and her cofounder had lost their husbands during the September 11 attacks.

After a few months under the shadow of trauma, they began raising money for the thousands of widows in Afghanistan who faced losing their children if they remarried. Under the marriage customs of their culture, when a widow remarries, her first set of children must return to their father’s extended family. The widow carries herself into the new household and into her new husband’s community alone, stripped of her children.

Within three months, Susan’s small nonprofit was providing literacy classes for these women. By working with CARE and other nonprofits that had established access to the widows, a team of volunteers taught them how to market their skills, in order to live independently with their children. Susan even learned how to work beside the Taliban so that they would not eliminate by force the support being provided to these stranded women.

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