I've been working on a brochure for an organization I am a part of called ROW Kids that helps to improve the education of children in places like Vietnam, Kenya, Belize, and Guatemala and I came across an initiative that President Bush announced three years ago, promising a $55 million program to three-year program to "help combat sexual violence against women and improve their health and legal status in four African countries". Anyone know if anything was ever accomplished with this initiative to help women? I have tried to find articles and information telling how this money helped and where it went, but I can find nothing. I also don't really understand how money helps to improve women's legal status'.
Article with Initiative:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/26922.php
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from the mouths of others...
"Well-behaved women seldom make history."
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
-Madeleine K. Albright
"It is not possible to address society's needs at any level while ignoring the perspectives, priorities, and knowledge of more than half of the world's population."
-Rosina Wilshire of UNDP
"Women give life. We have the capacity to give life and light. We can take up our brooms and sweep the earth."
-Isabelle Letelier
"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."
-Alice Walker
"Violence against women will end when legal, philanthropic, governmental and non-governmental organizations and impassioned individuals unite and stand up to say it is a priority, to say that the time for ending violence is now."
-Eve Ensler
"And ain't I a woman?"
-Sojourner Truth
"Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is frightening."
-Gertrude Stein
"Also we've found that when we discuss women's problems, we need the men to be present, so that they can contribute by giving their opinions of what to do about the problem. And so that they can learn as well. If they don't learn, they don't progress."
-Rigoberta Menchu (222)
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
-Madeleine K. Albright
"It is not possible to address society's needs at any level while ignoring the perspectives, priorities, and knowledge of more than half of the world's population."
-Rosina Wilshire of UNDP
"Women give life. We have the capacity to give life and light. We can take up our brooms and sweep the earth."
-Isabelle Letelier
"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."
-Alice Walker
"Violence against women will end when legal, philanthropic, governmental and non-governmental organizations and impassioned individuals unite and stand up to say it is a priority, to say that the time for ending violence is now."
-Eve Ensler
"And ain't I a woman?"
-Sojourner Truth
"Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is frightening."
-Gertrude Stein
"Also we've found that when we discuss women's problems, we need the men to be present, so that they can contribute by giving their opinions of what to do about the problem. And so that they can learn as well. If they don't learn, they don't progress."
-Rigoberta Menchu (222)
for reading
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali, _Infidel_ (Free Press, 2007)
- Fadela Amara, _Breaking the Silence: French Women's Voices from the Ghetto_ (U of Cal Press, 2006)
- Lijia Zhang, _"Socialism Is Great!": A Worker's Memoir of the New China_ (Atlas & Co., 2008)
- Marjane Satrapi, _Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood_ (Knopf, 2004)
- Rigoberta Menchu, _I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatamala_ (Verso, 1987)
- Susan Estrich, _Sex & Power_ (Riverhead Books, 2000)
- Wangari Maathai, _Unbowed: A Memoir_ (Vintage, 2007)
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2 comments:
Earlier this summer I read Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, the guy who has been working on starting schools all through Pakistan and now Afghanistan. One thing he came across was angry teachers in Afghanistan who were no longer getting paid a salary, as a result of the US. We came in and ousted the government, but have failed to follow through with the promised recovery efforts and money. I feel that maybe because we are one of the worlds richest countries we have developed this complex that thinks that just by giving other countries money (one of the things that we have that they don't) we can solve their problems, but in reality as you brought up we don't even know how that money is going to be used. What good does it do to give the money to an already corrupt government? Also, who is keeping us accountable for our unfulfilled promises?
Also, I just found a couple more websites; they don't have to do with the money that President Bush pledged but they do address how the money will be spent.
The first is about a safe house in Liberia. This country was founded by freed slaves but ironically ever since then there has been civil wars and the UN has had to intervene on multiple occasions. Just recently a safe house was built for women and children to escape sexual violence. Its sad that these people did not learn about human worth from their past, but this is one place that money could be contributed too: http://unmil.org/article.asp?id=2786
Second, at the bottom of this document it highlights some of the costs of violence: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw/launch/english/v.a.w-consequenceE-use.pdf
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