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Jan. 24 - Jan. 30, 2003

Malini Alles connects local activism with global women through her young organization

By May Chow | AsianWeek Staff Writer

From remote tribes, tiny villages, urban centers — the women all come for help with the same fatigued look in their eyes. Scared, embarrassed, ashamed, often too poor to afford sufficient health care, often too abused to look for help earlier. Put them all in one room, and no one would understand anyone else. They live thousands of miles away from one another and are in different continents and time zones. The common denominator among these women? Need.

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