In the book, Half The Sky, author’s Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn bring to light the oppression of women in the developing world. Anecdotal stories, filled with sadness, anger and hope, collected after years of reporting, depict just a few examples of this global struggle for women. At the end of their book organizations are listed, in alphabetical order, in hopes of creating a starting point for people to further support women in developing countries. With so many organization doing great work to empower women it becomes difficult to decide where money should be distributed. As a grant manager it is important to take a closer look at each of the organizations and their work to better assess where the money should go. However, the …show more content…
Starting off as just a limited relief program in 1972 it has now become the largest development organization in the world. Their goal is to spread the solutions they have started in Bangladesh and hope they are continued around the world. With tools such as education, finance, healthcare legal service and even a community empowerment, BRAC has helped the lives of an estimated 135 million people in eleven different countries. These social programs are massive and are formed to alleviate poverty on a global scale, financial support is critical to keep these programs supported. On their website they state that a donation will, “help foster education, create wealth and improve life quality.” That is a broad spectrum of where your donation could be going. For someone who is concerned with exactly where their money goes one useful way to find out is a simple phone call. If a real person answers the phone that is automatically a sign of a charity that is legitimate. BRAC’s main goal is economical empowerment especially for household mothers. Strengths of BRAC, as stated on their website, is the ability to take locally cultivated ideas and making them globally effective. As well as their, “scale and reach”, serving over ten different countries. Negatives about BRAC are hard to come by however some question whether their micro-finance department and loan system is sustainable …show more content…
Their goal is, again, child based, however, with a greater focus on abuse. “It is every child`s right to grow up in a world that is safe and secure in every aspect. Unfortunately for years the issue of child safety and security remained a matter of lower priority in India. Recent research reveals that fifty percent of all children in India are abused either physically or sexually or both. What comes as a shock is that fifty four percent of those are boys. As is the case with many other social evils the ugly head of child abuse and molestation remained covered in the shroud of denial for the longest time,” ( New Light website). In order to combat with child abuse Safe Light has begun to open safe shelter location for children in India to go if being abused. In these shelters children are given education and health care along with food and childhood recreations. They also take pride in gender based violence by supporting the women of India especially daughters of women in the sex industries. Positives of this group is that they support a minority of people that get very little help from outside sources. The negatives is that once outside the walls of the shelters the children are back in a community that is not doing all it can to support new lights
Also a more recent example of aid through CAFOD is the “MAKE POVERTY HISTORY” campaign supported by many celebrities, so far this campaign has resulted debt cancellation, more aid, and has gathered many new campaigners and supporters of CAFOD. Another way that CAFOD helps is through its disaster fund. This fund was created to help if there is an natural disaster and for refugees. This means sending food, antibiotics, blankets, and shelters. This fund has been helpful for the flood victims in Bangladesh in 1995, the
We cannot deny the imperfection of the world today; poverty, violence, lack of education, and the general overwhelming deficiency of basic daily necessities are among some of the most troubling issues on the agenda. By carefully selecting our critical lens, we can gather that there are many aspects of today’s issues where we can focus our attention and begin the quest for solutions to these pervasive problems. Authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (2009) utilize their book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide to emphasize the particular struggle of women in the world today and how by addressing three particular abuses of sex trafficking and forced prostitution, gender-based violence (including honor killings and mass rape), and maternal mortality, we may begin “unlocking an incipient women’s movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty” (p. xxii). However, we must first understand the difficulty of addressing such complex issues by a proposing a “one-size fits all” solution and take into consideration the varying feminist perspectives that currently contemplate the oppression of women in societies around the world. To be able to critically digest Kristof and WuDunn’s book we must explore the types of stories and evidence included and how they’re presented, and the generalized theories behind the insight and solutions regarding the women in need around the world. The authors alienate their audience by ignoring the complexity of building a singular feminist movement. Kristof and WuDunn’s book Half the Sky further contributes to the oppression of women because they objectify Third World women by portraying them as victims in need of outside rescue and suggest that an overarching solution...
First, the victims themselves — all women including indigenous and minority groups — must be sensitized regarding the existence, ramifications and viable solutions to the issue of gender pay gap. This can be achieved by implementing the frame bridging and frame transformation micro-mobilization process (Snow et al., 1986). For instance, in their “Making Women Count” project, CCPA (2016) has implemented organizational outreach and information diffusion strategies to aggressively publicize their all-inclusive gender pay gap report with Oxfam Canada in a bid to mobilize all women groups. Similarly, we can use mass media and online campaign strategies, such as posters, public seminars, social media, blogging, letter-writing to influential women leaders, to optimize our micro-mobilization efforts. Like many other SMOs, we will mobilize resources like money, manpower and information by partnering with interested corporate bodies, private foundations, individual donors and media
As Kenyan mother once said, “My dreams don’t look exactly like I thought they would when I was a little girl” (nd). Jacqueline Novogratz, a modern philanthropist, understands this better than most. A typical American girl, she found herself in Africa, helping women with no voice in their world. She never planned for this growing up, but her leadership, determination, and new way of looking at the world was in her from the beginning.
Currently, Canadian women are helping women in third world countries gain the same rights Canadian women have received. Some well known foundations are ‘Because I Am A Girl’, donations are sent to girls in the third world country so that they can obtain food, shelter, and an education, allowing them make a change in their society. Canadian women would not have been able to create projects to help women in other nations gain their rights if not for The Married Women’s Property Act, World War I, The Person’s Case, and Canadian Human Rights Act. These key milestones in Canadian history have allowed Canadian women to continue fighting for women rights on a global stage.
Ernest Gaines’ short story, The Sky is Gray, was published in 1963, towards the end of the Civil Rights Movement. The title of the piece hints to the general dreariness which lingers throughout the story. James, the narrator, is a young boy in a poor African American family in Louisiana during World War II. Despite the racism and poverty which control James’ life, his mother teaches him how to survive adversity with her tough love.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres. Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991.
October Sky tells about an uneducated town, a contentious population, and a boy who dreams of achieving aeronautical flight. The plot follows Sonny and his path of scientific accomplishment. Most of his peers and leaders are opposed to the idea of having a scientist amongst them, simply because it is unheard of. Against all odds, Sonny and his BCMA push on and attain victory. The recurring theme of this novel is that success does not come with ease. Sonny’s rocket-building journey was not effortless, but it would have been worse for him if it was.
“I am not a social worker. I am not a teacher, even. That is my fear, you know, that I really can’t do anything. Helping them to get and education is not going to do anything, but without help they are doomed (Born into Brothels, 2004).” Zana Briski made this statement in her documentary Born into Brothels, referring to the children of sex workers in Sonagachi. This statement exemplifies child saving, a dominant theme in children’s discourse, that portrays children as vulnerable, innocent, and in need of “saving” from poverty and immorality according to a view of a universal childhood (Wells, 2009, pg.28). Child saving efforts remove children from their homes and families and place them in new homes or schools to discursively separate them from their parents (Wells, 2009, pg.28). Therefore, they would have the opportunity to be successful. Saving children based on the western conception of childhood has proved to be ineffective and culturally inappropriate when applied to international circumstances. By examining Zana Briski’s method of saving the children in Sonagachi and reviewing the criticisms of the film, it can be determined that her method of saving the children was unnecessary and contributes to the dominance of western political discourse based on the concept of a universal childhood and what western culture considers to be the “best interests” of the child. This essay will address Briski’s method of saving the children in Sonagachi, explore alternative options to child saving through structural reformation and rights based approaches, and examine how the use of images to save children and the globalization of childhood create political problems on an international scale.
Love. What is it? An intense feeling of deep affection. Abuse. What is it? Violent treatment of someone. Now, that we have the correct meaning of the two, do they combine? Well, in many cases, they do, but are not intended to. Connecting a film to a piece of writing gives it a meaning and makes it whole. The connection between the two can be broad, or hard to understand, but will make the idea bigger as a whole. Have you ever read a good story? I mean a really good story? The kind of story that has you where you feel as if your entire life blinked before your eyes? Or the kind of story where it was so good that you want to read it over and over again? Have you ever thought about why that story was as good as it was? The same can occur in a
...action with others… especially men. This supplies final substantiation of the authors' argument, that women continue to be oppressed by their male-dominated societies. It is a bold undertaking for women to ally and promote a world movement to abandon sexist traditions. Although I have never lived in a third world or non-Westernized country, I have studied the conditions women suffer as "inferior" to men. In National Geographic and various courses I have taken, these terrible conditions are depicted in full color. Gender inequality is a terrible trait of our global society, and unfortunately, a trait that might not be ready to change. In America we see gender bias towards women in voters' unwillingness to elect more females into high office, and while this is not nearly as severe as the rest of the world, it indicates the lingering practice of gender inequality.
Gender equality is a major issue amongst today’s current events. Organisations, groups and protests have sprung up in accordance with third wave feminism which shines light directly on women in the work force and their role in it. Whilst this has mainly been an issue dealt with by developed nations, a more inquisitive look into the role of gender equality can be found in the development of developing economies. Gender inequality is an issue that plagues developing nations and only through a thorough understanding of it can any important change be done. Whilst professionals in the field of development all agree that gender equality is critical, evidence can only be found in real world examples and theories that aim to improve equality. This
Many US Women’s experiences have been shaped from the intersecting power inequalities that they have faced throughout their lives. These inequalities bring criticism, cruelty and sometimes death; however these women continue to fight for their rights through protests, activist organizations and by remaining composed when faced with adversities.
Women’s rights are an important factor in understanding global well-being. Although a treaty was endorsed by the majority of the world’s nations a few decades ago, numerous issues still exist in most aspects of life, despite many successes in liberating women. It is an unfortunate case, how women are paid less than men, yet work more; throughout their lifetime, gender discrimination negatively affects girls and women; and women are often the ones who are in a state of poverty. It is a common misconception to think that women’s rights only exist in countries where religion is a law. Similarly, some individuals might think that the rights of women are an issue no more. Unfortunately that is not the case. Today, gender bias continues to
It is true of Africa that women constitute a treasure that remains largely hidden. (Moleketi 10) African women grow 90% of all African produce, and contribute about 70% of Africa’s agricultural labor every year. (Salmon 16) Both the labor and food that are provided by African women go towards the increase in Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). (Moleketi 10) Although African women are feeding the majority of Africa’s inhabitants, the constricting ropes of gender inequality are still holding them back from being appreciated and living up to their full potential. Outstandingly, women such as President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, of Liberia, have gladly accepted the challenge of breaking free of these ropes. The history of women’s rights in Africa, the glass ceiling, and the modern aspects of women’s rights, all play prominent roles in the overall condition of women’s rights in Africa. Until the day arrives that these discriminatory injustices are corrected, individuals in African nations will continue to struggle.