We are delighted to share that we launched our first book, written by our co-founders Laina Raveendran Greene and Audrey Tan, as well as Lizzy Hawkins titled, "Sustainable Impact - How women are key to ending poverty" on 17th May in partnership with Bloomberg's Women Committee and Singapore Committee of UN Women at Bloomberg's Singapore office. 
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We were honoured to have Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the Internet as our Chief Guest. We were also joined by 2 of our partner social enterprises Color Silk and Siam Organic, all the way from Cambodia and Thailand! 
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The evening was filled with moments of joy, words of encouragement and inspiration. We had a panel discussion, post the book launch, where we discussed why women are good investments. We also celebrated our first anniversary alongside the book launch! 

A big thanks to all our partners who made this event a great success! A shoutout to the team at Bloomberg's Women Committee, Team from UN Global Compact Network, our wonderful Sponsors SAP, ASEAN Foundation, UN Women, our volunteers and all who made this event possible! 

Our book is also live now on Amazon Kindle, Get yourselves a copy here

 
4 May 2017, Singapore – “Money in the hands of the women can do a lot more good for nutrition, health and education of the child and the family…when you take a woman out of poverty, you take the family and the community out of poverty.” Laina Raveendran Greene, Co-founder of Angels of Impact posed these thoughts to the audience as she ended her talk at TEDxSingaporeWomen on October 2016.
 
This year, Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) is celebrating its 50th anniversary and a Singaporean social enterprise, Angels of Impact (AI), is making contributions to the ASEAN community by supporting women social enterprises in the region to help alleviate poverty. This is a timely contribution to ASEAN, given that Singapore will chair ASEAN next year, in 2018.
 
Inaugural Book Launch
 
On 17 May 2017, Angels of Impact (AI) will be launching their first ever book, titled “Sustainable Impact: How Women Are Key To Ending Poverty” to honour Mother’s Day. This book was founded on AI’s massive transformative purpose of “creating a world without poverty in unity with women”. AI intends to do so by impacting 3 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – #1 No Poverty, #5 Gender Equality and #12 Responsible Consumption and Production. How can this be achieved? AI passionately believes that if the community invests in and consumes responsibly produced goods made by women living in poverty themselves, the community can achieve 3 goals in one or as some would say “kill all three birds with one stone”.
 
The book launch, happening at Bloomberg Singapore, will be a night of insightful discussions, showcasing examples and meaningful conversations. Vint Cerf, global Internet pioneer widely known as one of "The Fathers of the Internet" and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, will be in attendance as the Guest of Honour, together with panellists from the Bloomberg Women’s Community, Singapore Committee for UN Women, Siam Organic and Color Silk to celebrate and discuss around the topic of “Women are Good Investments”.
 
Coming together to make a difference
 
So who is AI exactly? They are a social enterprise founded by Laina Raveendran Greene and Audrey Tan – two Singaporean women from two different backgrounds and generations, who share the same vision and strongly believe that they can make a difference in the community. They focus on women as good investments, and aim to maximize the social impact of money by working with enterprises, which in turn work with many women producing responsibly and getting the most effective use of resources. ​
  
Sustainable Impact: How women are key to ending poverty
 
The book, “Sustainable Impact: How Women Are Key To Ending Poverty”, will be available for purchase online via the AI website, www.angelsofimpact.com or via Amazon from 18 May 2017 onwards. All proceeds for the book will go towards the cause and help propel the mission and vision of AI and accelerate towards ending world poverty.
 
More info about the book and Greene’s TEDxSingaporeWomen talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuepOWFAszo

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