Looking forward to our 4th session this Wednesday June 9th from 2:00 to 4:00 as usual.
You can expect Anne to add some additional content to this Blog, including preview of Questions for our consideration and discussion a couple of days in advance of June 9th.
In the meantime, here are a couple of documentary movies you might want to watch on the topic of the need to empower women.
Both deal with real-life, old tribal male-dominated customs that victimize women. Difficult subject matter that speaks directly to the kind of the cultural barriers confronting Melinda and the Gates Foundation in their quest to Uplift and Empower Women.
The are currently available on CRAVE streaming service, if you can access it.
1. A 40 minute short-doc. called “A Girl In The River- The Price of Forgiveness” about a girl who survives an ‘honour-killing’.
2. A 90 minute documentary called “Shame” about a Pakistani woman Mukhtaran Mai, who is sentenced to be gang-raped as family-penance for an alleged crime of her brother’s.
Muhtaran herself, becomes a ‘Woman of Lift’ in her tiny village and gains world-wise support and attention for her courageous activism.
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