Projects
Post-Tsunami Women Empowerment – “Work for Widows” (2004)
In response to the devastating 2004 tsunami, I founded Work for Widows, a grassroots initiative to empower widowed women through sustainable income-generating skills. The program supported over many women by providing training in sewing, crochet and knitting, along with access to raw materials, financial support and marketing strategies to ensure long-term independence and dignity.
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As an alternative theory, (and because Latin scholars do this sort of thing) someone tracked down a 1914 Latin edition of De Finibus which challenges McClintock’s 15th century claims and suggests that the dawn of lorem ipsum was as recent as the 20th century. The 1914 Loeb Classical Library Edition ran out of room on page 34 for the Latin phrase “dolorem ipsum” (sorrow in itself). Thus, the truncated phrase leaves one page dangling with “do-”, while another begins with the now ubiquitous “lorem ipsum”.
Whether a medieval typesetter chose to garble a well-known (but non-Biblical—that would have been sacrilegious) text, or whether a quirk in the 1914 Loeb Edition inspired a graphic designer, it’s admittedly an odd way for Cicero to sail into the 21st century.
