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Lia Grimanis (born December 12, 1971) is a Canadian businesswoman, adventurer, keynote speaker and philanthropist. She is the founder of Up With Women, an organization dedicated to helping homeless women and children to rebuild their lives. ==Up With Women== Grimanis founded the organization to give women and children inspiration and strategies for rebuilding their lives after homelessness. Grimanis was driven to establish Up With Women because of her time spent as a homeless teenager. Up With Women's mission: Success Belongs to Everybody Up With Women works to: * Provide advanced career and life-building coaching and education for recently homeless and at-risk women. * Provide leadership mentoring for formerly homeless children to help them to become leaders in their communities. Up With Women Child Advocates participate in a variety of projects. One of the more notable activities is to create a community action project and creatively give back to the community. * Raise public awareness about women's homelessness, through community outreach and media relations. Up With Women's media work aims to share positive stories about formerly homeless women and children who have rebuilt their lives. The media work also works to highlight key issues surrounding women's and family homelessness, while engaging the public to support the cause of ending homelessness, poverty and violence against women. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lia Grimanis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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