In Her Footsteps

Opportunity International Australia is proud to announce the release of its mini documentary, In Her Footsteps. An abridged version of the 2008 feature length production, this latest version, while only 38 minutes long, illustrates the extreme poverty of India and the positive impact microfinance is having on the lives of the women who live there.

In Her Footsteps follows six Australian women on a trip to India. Supporters and advocates for Opportunity International Australia, the women left their comforts in Australia to witness firsthand the conditions the poor live with in the slums and impoverished areas of India. In Her Footsteps goes on to illuminate the hope that microfinance is bringing to families struggling in these desperate situations.

There are close to 900 million people living on less than US$2 dollars per day in India. Where many of these people live, there are severe sanitation and water issues, which often leads to chronic health problems. Food shortages and the increase of food prices only amplifies their already adverse state.  

In Her Footsteps explores how microfinance can be used to help solve poverty by giving people a hand up, and how this very thing is being done by Opportunity International Australia’s partners in India.

Narrated by Channel 9’s Today Show presenter, Lisa Wilkinson, In Her Footsteps is available for use by Opportunity International Australia supporters who want to host their own information session or fundraising event with friends, colleagues or others. We need your help to spread this important message – please email opinfo@opportunity.org.au for your copy, and help encourage others to make a difference.
 
Click here to a view a client story featured in In Her Footsteps.

“When you empower a woman you empower an entire family. When women get together, miracles happen.”

Deborah Lindholm, Foundation for Women 

Source: UN Human Development Report 2009.