Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere

After a twenty-five-year career spent fighting for women's rights around the globe at the expense of time with her family, Karen Sherman looked around and realized she didn't really know her children and felt little connection to her husband. With her world-work, marriage, family-crashing down, she made the rash decision to move to Rwanda with her three sons, an experiment she dubbed "our year of living dangerously."



While her boys attended the international school, she worked to better the...