Nonprofit Forgotten Voices wins Harrisburg Chamber award

In a town near Ndola in Zambia, women with little choice but prostitution to feed their children are learning how to make a living sewing school uniforms.

A Pennsylvania nonprofit organization is helping make that possible. Forgotten Voices International provides $2,750 in donated seed money every six months to train the women and give each her own sewing machine, fabric and startup cash.

Founder Ryan Keith doesn’t see himself as an entrepreneur, but Forgotten Voices is helping create jobs. For his efforts, the Harrisburg Regional Chamber named Keith its Entrepreneur of the Year for 2011.