A crash course in changing the world.
In 2010 I was in Libya and teaching girls who were all from an Islamic background. I went off to India in August 2010 and started working towards fulfilling my dream of an autism village, along with looking after my family that included my autistic son, doing creative writing, teaching at my usual interesting art, design and technology job and working on various evoke projects launched during and by post evoke groups like delta, evokeforever, the evoke wiki, the evoke literature project, evoke band etc. But I had taken the email addresses and phone numbers of my students and over ten years they had grown up into beautiful people. They knew about my work with autistic people and many wanted to help. They offered to start helping autistic girls. Hana, Asma , Nisrin, Ekhlas, Najat and many others whose name I do not want to mention in full took up the cause and efficiently worked at collecting funds, donating and finally seeing to it that autism help centrers were started in Libya too where if they were not directly involved they gave impetus and support to the work, especially in helping autistic girls. They had all become college professors inspired by me and were changing the face of women power wherever they taught because they brought with them the power of English and emancipation.
I had fed them articles like this : http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/feature...
and also knowledge of organisations like this to inspire them : http://anweshi.org/
The exposure to something like Ajitha's work and Sugathak**ari's and Mary Roy's, so different from their immediate surroundings , helped them a lot to blossom, albeit in their context.
Women are on par now with men and 2020 is a happy year for me as I watch my students and daughters hold key positions and live a satisfied life , equality and equity no longer something they need to fight over in its older forms, though new challenges keep rising. The fight goes on but they win every battle.
http://www.abhaya.org/ ( Sugathak**ari's work)
http://www.pallikoodam.org/ ( Mary Roy's work)
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