Next 10%?

[avad]

(x-posted to the 10percentclub)

I'm considering this project for my next 10% donation:
Worth: A Global Women's Empowerment Program
It seems very sustainable. Lots of info on the program in those sidebar links.
What do you guys think?

Comments

[avad.livejournal.com]

It's true. and a very difficult/complicated issue.I'm not saying it's easy. *sigh* But it actually goes against tradition to do many very compassion-based things.

I have a friend from morocco who alerted me to an organization that she was looking into nearby to her.
In Morocco, a woman that becomes pregnant outside of marriage is Outcast. This is regardless if she was raped.
It is a disgrace and that's that.
ok..
so now we have a pregnant woman...with no income...on the streets. great. well, hmmm we can let her fall to prostitution...or just wait til she hangs herself.
It's ok. It's tradition.
Anyway...so this group of women created a place where they could go and be safe and have the baby. and they collect donations of diapers and baby needs and blankets, etc etc.
And they were then trying to figure out how they could get the women to be self-sustaining...so they were working on income generation,literacy, getting them jobs, etc. Selima (my friend) went with the woman who heads this effort around on her day...and she said she was incredible..she never stopped...anything and everything she could do.
I give thanks that there are people like that. And I feel no qualms in supporting their efforts...even if some angry family member wants to burn the place down.
perhaps even more so.
*sigh*
so I guess that's where I stand on that.