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Subject: Tell your rep: co-sponsor the GROWTH Act!

I may not be an economist but I do know that we can fight global poverty by investing in women.

That's why I need your help to convince Congress to make the GROWTH Act, an innovative bill that would give millions of women the tools they need to lift themselves and their children out of poverty, a priority in 2010.

Click here to join me in urging your rep. to co-sponsor the GROWTH Act: http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6214/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2075

It is a proven fact that families, communities and entire societies benefit when women are empowered.

Microfinance efforts have shown again and again that economically empowered women invest in the nutritional, health and educational needs of their children, helping to permanently lift their families and communities out of poverty.

The GROWTH Act would reshape U.S. assistance and trade policy to:

* Help women living in poverty start and grow their own microenterprises, through access to microfinance.
* Help increase women's land and property rights.
* Help improve women’s wages and working conditions in poor countries by emphasizing training and education.

But first we have to get it passed! The more co-sponsors the GROWTH Act has, the more quickly it can become law.

That's why we need YOUR help to convince your representative to co-sponsor the bill.

Click below to urge your representative to co-sponsor the GROWTH Act before leaving Washington when the August recess begins next Monday. http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6214/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2075

Once you’ve sent your message, please forward this email on to your friends and family and ask them to join you in fighting poverty by contacting your representatives today.

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