FAITH IN ACTION by Kather­ine Marshall

Aicha Ech Channa, a gutsy Moroc­can woman, has worked for five decades with young unmar­ried moth­ers, who stand at the very bot­tom of the social heap in her coun­try. Even if their preg­nancy resulted from rape, they are con­demned as pros­ti­tutes and thrown out by their fam­i­lies, and their babies are stig­ma­tized as bastards.

For her work Mrs. Ech Channa just received the world’s largest faith-based prize for social entre­pre­neur­ship. That’s the Opus Prize and it’s for one mil­lion dollars.

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