“Can fashion save lives?” “Can you think of a better return in life than saving one?” These are the questions Mary Fanaro asks every day when describing the incredible journey she’s been on since 2005.

A journey that has taken this social entrepreneur and one-woman powerhouse from the famine ravaged countries of Africa where she builds schools and feeds thousands, to the hospital’s oncology ward fighting cancer that threatened her own life; from the runways of Fashion Week to the collective consciousness of Hollywood and Main Street USA who choose to wear OmniPeace apparel due to its powerful message and mis- sion; and from conversations with Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, one of her greatest inspirations and supporters, to conversations with the very students receiving an education in the schools she is re- sponsible for building.

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