2011 GIRL EFFECT BLOGGING CAMPAIGN: THE POSTS!
“The Girl Effect” is a powerful idea: by investing in girls in the developing world, we make an incredibly effective investment in eradicating poverty, creating thriving communities, and slowing the spread of AIDS.
[In the work of participating bloggers], you’ll find reflections about The Girl Effect . Usually, we specialize in writing about subjects ranging from business to creativity, but we invite many to take a day to write about this. Neither the participating bloggers or I (Tara Sophia Mohr) are affiliated with any organization. We are passionate about this cause.
Join the campaign! Write about The Girl Effect at your blog this week, October 4-11, 2011!
For details on writing your own post for the campaign, click here.” [Tara Sophia Mohr/Wise Living]
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Last year I participated in this campaign. I didn’t know about the effort in a timely enough fashion to share information and an invitation. I hope this year some of you will join the effort. I look forward to reading what you write . . . This is not about leaving boys out, by the way. Boys benefit. You have to view the video to understand why girls are specifically targeted for this.
Here is what I posted last year:
I AM THE ANSWER
Photograph courtesy of Lee Wag, Public Domain Pictures.net.
As the women go, so goes the world. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood, LI, NY who raised and educated me.
FOR THE GIRLS
FOR CARE‘S INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S DAY
FOR EVERY MOTHER’S CHILD
by
Jamie Dedes
They come like thistle and thorn,
and write their rage upon my body.
They come like locusts and
feed on the fields of my soul.
Like an angry storm, they drown me.
Like the desert sands, they suffocate me.
They see me, a little person of
no consequence … a girl,
Just a trinket, a toy, a receptacle,
something to sell, buy, and trade.
But hear me, I am the answer.
I am the calm after the storm.
I am the antidote to
stone hearts and desiccated souls.
I am the future and the past.
I am the hope, the dream, the reality.
I am authentic.
I am human.
I am the answer.
Poem by Jamie Dedes, copyright 2010, 2011, all rights reserved.
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INTO THE BARDO
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