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Letitia Munson

1800s Canadian herbalist, fortune-teller and midwife

Founded non-profit organization (Continence Restored, Inc. 1975) that disseminates information on bladder control problems to people with the problem, people interested in the problem and help create and awareness about having urinary incontinence.

Dr Ethel Percy Andrus

Founder of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)

Jody Williams

Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1997 for her work to ban landmines through the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which shared the prize with her that year.

Rostyslava Nychay Bohachevsky

Activist in the Ukrainian Women’s League, travelling through villages, setting up kindergartens, and health and legal-aid cooperatives.

Dr Mary Booth

Australian physician, educator and welfare worker

Madi Gray

South African anti-apartheid activist

Maria Ndlovu

Maria Ndlovu is a GIPA (UN Programme for the Greater Involvement for People Living with AIDS) fieldworker based at Transnet headquarters in Johannesburg.