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Demi Moore has won the Pepsi Refresh Challenge! Thanks to all of her fan votes, Demi won a $250,000 grant for GEMS (Girls Education and Mentoring Services).  GEMS is an organization based in New York designed to empower young women in America who are victims of commercial sexual exploitation.  GEMS will use the money to train 10 survivors as outreach workers to serve in their communities.  Congratulations to Demi and GEMS!  You can also check out Demi & Ashton’s new anti-trafficking organization The DNA Foundation.

Also, if you are free this Thursday night you should plan to find your local theater that is showing Half The Sky Live.  It’s a one night movie event based on the book, Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.  Join the movement,  celebrate International Women’s Day and be inspired to help women around the world turn oppression into opportunity!

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