blog # 9

Help support the NGO, Women for Women International. It is an organization that helps women who have been affected by war, to go from being a victim to survivor to an active citizen.

"Women for Women International provides women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies. We're changing the world one woman at a time."

This organization shows that people do care about other people, and people do have good hearts. It shows that no matter where your from or what you've been through there is someone who does care and wants whats best for you. The people who run this organization go out and give opportunities to women, like job training, rights awareness, and even leadership training. This organization is training these women to go back out into their towns and cities and not only survive, but make a difference.

In FIFE chapter 8, it talks about feminism globaly and how women everywhere struggle for freedom and rights. I think that living in the U.S we forget that we have it pretty good. I know that we have struggles and heart ache here in the U.S, but there are women in other countries that are treated so much worse. The book points out a few specific things that are still going on in other countries to women. Like in China when they still kill baby girls, and in some places they circumsize the women. I don't understand all of it, but I think we should be honored to live here. I know things aren't perfect here, but it seems to me that our struggles here are meaningless compared to what some other women go through. I also realize that all of the things that women go through are a result of men ruling over us. Our problems around the world may not be equal, but they do come from the same core problems.