Great Work–Great Need–Great Education
I just love all the great work being done by people around the world on behalf of girls and women, and the amazing increase in publicity we’re seeing about it. There is much to be done to move us to a peaceful, safe and healthy world and I believe we move closer to it, as the gifts of women world-wide are fully available to us all and appreciated. I also believe as men recognize and honor their more caring sides, and leave the ’old’ masculine identity behind (competition, winning at all costs, violence, money and sex), this will help speed up the process.
I am passionate about education. I believe when girls and women have access to equal education, 90 million girls and 25 million boys are uneducated today, it can save them from childhood marriages, kidnapping, sex trafficking, rape and lives of servitude and poverty. I have been encouraged by my friend Marilyn Shannon, to post a note about this and announce my commitment to raise money for a school in a country where there is extraordinary need, a school that will provide education, safety and care for girls to graduate from. I will use this blog to report our progress. I hope you will spread the word and help if you feel it in your heart to do so. I just read thousands of girls/women were ‘taken’ to the World Cup for sexual purposes. My heart bleeds every time I hear these stories and then heals a bit as I move forward in working to end the nightmare so many are living in today.
I have just started a Powerful Women’s Networking–Coffee and Contacts Chapter in St. Louis, MO. My plan is to create a global connection, support from our community and those around the country who too believe education is a powerful equalizer so that girls and women will have equal access to resources and power over their body, mind and their future. Thanks for taking a moment to read this. Please contact me if you share this interest, want to help, make a contribution in knowledge, contacts, money, time, etc. May our hearts be one as we take this journey.
