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Violence against women in Kenya, a real solution.
Educating women about their rights is all well and good, but in certain areas of the world, it is not nearly enough, if not useless.
Women in the area are constantly raped and abused, and having workshops about their rights will not stop a man from raping and abusing them further, creating only a temporary and ultimately futile empowerment. These women do need the education, sure, but the help they desperately require is of a more tangible kind. Additionally, I am normally weary of those charities that only attempt to "educate" and buy "notebooks" for their target audience in need because they usually keep more donation money than they actually spend, and most of the donations to to their "trainers".
This is why I picked Breaking the Cycle of Gender Violence. Here is a charity that is trying to create real, tangible change, not only by providing abused women support and counsel, but also picking up medical bills and attempting to carry on legal procedures to get these women the justice they deserve.
At this point, I do not have the resources to donate to them, but I will surely be promoting their cause and pointing people to where they can support it.
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Comment by Calida DeBello on April 17, 2010 at 12:13am -
I like your focus on real, tangible change, especially for those on the margins who may be the most vulnerable.
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Comment by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 17, 2010 at 12:15am -
Thank you, Calida. :)
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Comment by gverma on April 20, 2010 at 4:58pm -
I like what this charity is doing. I would like to add a though to it though: women becoming more empowered through education and employment opportunities, sometimes causes frustration in men, which comes out in the form of violence. Ofcourse that does not mean that we dont want women to be empowered. But it is a very pertinent problem especially in socially repressed societies and in times with inadequate opportunities. Now it seems to me that to break the cycle of violence, its not enough to empower women, we need to educate and counsell the men too. Violence is a mental disease. This charity will make a huge difference because it is treating 'attitudes'- it should start with women, but in the long term i would like to see them create a new gender balance.
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