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Low Income Women and Green Cleaning

From: Tena Rubio
Length: 00:07:32

Low income immigrant women own their own green, eco-friendly cleaning businesses. Read the full description.
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Piece Description

Many women are often the primary breadwinners of a family. It’s vital that they have a place in this new green economy.  One Bay Area non-profit shows how a business can be both eco-friendly and empower the lives many immigrant women.  And this business is no newcomer.  They’ve been doing it for the past 15-years.

Broadcast History

Part of National Radio Project's Making Contact Series.

Intro and Outro

INTRO:

Many women are often the primary breadwinners of a family. It’s vital that they have a place in this new green economy. One Bay Area non-profit shows how a business can be both eco-friendly and empower the lives many immigrant women. And this business is no newcomer. They’ve been doing it for the past 15-years.

OUTRO:

That was Making Contact's executive producer, Tena Rubio.