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A Woman for Women

It almost sounds like a love song: I will bike through the hottest place on earth; go to the coldest, windiest and most remote continent; ride on semi-wild horses in Mongolia; climb many mountains in the Himalayas, Iceland and Africa. But not quite. Rather, these are awesome feats, just some, achieved by an amazing woman for other women.

The woman is Christine Amour-Levar, French-Swiss-Filipina social entrepreneur-adventurer-author-advocate—so says her website (). The other women are those underprivileged affected by climate change under HER Planet Earth and those who have been subjected to violence and abuse under Women on a Mission (WOAM). Both are award-winning not-for-profit organisations that this multi-hyphenate co-founded and founded in 2012 and 2017, respectively. Their common goal? To take all-female teams

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