Two women who have always known safety and material comfort—attorney Lauren J. Wachtler and filmmaker Francine A. LeFrak—are helping women halfway around the world forge new lives after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, during which they were raped and their husbands hacked to death by machete-wielding militiamen.
Same Sky, a nonprofit artisan collective envisioned two years ago by Ms. LeFrak and incorporated and trademarked by Ms. Wachtler, today provides secure income from jewelry-making jobs for Rwandan rape victims, some of whom bore children as the result of sexual violence.
