Join the World Affairs Council of Charlotte (WACC) and Bank of America for lunch on Tuesday, September 13 at the Bank of America Financial Center, as we host Jillian Haslam, speaker, humanitarian, and award-winning author of “A Voice out of Poverty: The Power to Achieve Through Adversity.”

A Voice Out of Poverty, a poignant memoir of Jillian Haslam’s rise from the slums of Calcutta, offers an unflinching look at her extraordinary journey, unrelenting drive, and tenacity to climb out of adversity and cyclical poverty.

Today, as the Mother Theresa International Memorial Award recipient, she is an untethered voice for the poor and powerless through her humanitarian initiatives and non-profit work.

“Haslam first embodied her fierce will to never give up as a young girl, when she stood for hours at a tea shop, begging for a ladle of milk to keep her newborn sister from dying of starvation.

A Voice out of Poverty leaves the reader asking how someone so young had the tenacity to overcome so much—and then go back to face it all again in a passionate effort to spare others from the suffering that she endured and witnessed all around her growing up.” (Source: Amazon.com)

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Program Information: 

Date:
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Check-in & Registration:
11:30 – 12:00 PM ET
Lunch & Presentation: 
12:00 – 1:30 PM E.T.
Location:
Bank of America Financial Center (60th Floor) Directions Directions
Cost:
FREE (WACC Member Rate  Teacher / Students)
$20 (Non-Member Rate)

  • Please call 704-687-7762 for credit card payments over the phone.
  • Checks can be mailed to “World Affairs Council of Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., CHHS 227, Charlotte, NC 28223.

 

 

 

Biography: 

Jillian Haslam was born in 1970 and raised primarily in the slums in Calcutta, where she faced a childhood of extreme poverty. Haslam is a renowned speaker and has appeared at countless prestigious organizations, including the University of Cambridge, Bank of America, Bank of England, PwC, Nova Nordisk, Barclays, and more.

She also has been honored with a growing list of awards, including the prestigious Mother Teresa Memorial International Award, The True Legend Award from The Telegraph, and the Asian Woman of the Year Award by The Independent. She has launched six nonprofits focused on educational programming for students.