\u201cNevertheless, the show must go on. While prices will rise, the quality and uniqueness of our products will overshadow the increase. Support for the Bandhwari women is needed now more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Students say the project offers far more than business experience. Political science major Taylor Perez, who is preparing for her first trip to India, said she joined to understand the human side of international cooperation. \u201cSeeing firsthand what a project like this does for the people who are part of it \u2014 that\u2019s what drew me in,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
For Wernick, that blend of business education and global empathy is what makes the Bandhwari Women\u2019s Project endure. \u201cIn the end,\u201d he said, \u201cthis is about students learning to use the tools of business to make a difference in a complex world \u2014 and doing it with a ton of heart.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Second Annual Bandhwari Women\u2019s Project Fashion Show will be held Friday, November 14 at FIU\u2019s BBC Campus. The event is free for FIU students and $45 for the general public online through November 1, then $60 at the door. All proceeds from ticket sales, donations, the silent auction, and vendor partnerships will go directly toward expanding the Bandhwari Project. Find more\u00a0information and registration here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cNevertheless, the show must go on. While prices will rise, the quality and uniqueness of our products will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-41319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}