Oly Khowash is a student of the University of California, San Diego, pursuing her Bachelor of Science in Psychology. At nine months old, she began to frequently visit India. Comparing the poverty and struggle faced by people there to her own home made her re-think her duties to the world. Thus, when she reached college, she became involved in many organizations that help people, including EPTEAM [Eliminate Poverty Through Education and Microfinance:[epteam.ucsd.edu] and VOX [Voices for Planned Parenthood]. It was through the second that she went to CGIU [Clinton Global Initiative University: cgiu.org] to give high school students comprehensive sex education. Inspired by being around so many great initiatives, she started her own enterprise: a jewelry store from which all profits go to microfinance and pull people out of poverty. It is hosted at madworldshining.blogspot.com and tinyurl.com/mwshining. She has already made loans to Kiva and hopes to accomplish even more in the future!
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