What began as a college project, SHE (Style Her Empowered) has evolved into a non-profit organization that is changing futures for women in Togo. Inspired after reading Half the Sky, a book about the oppression of women in developing countries, Payton McGriff, then a sophomore at the University of Idaho, began to study the obstacles to women’s advancement. Focusing on education, she discovered that a major hindrance to girls’ enrollment was the significant cost of school uniforms.
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