Yesterday was a busy and rewarding day.
At Inner Wheel, we organized a conference local high school Lycée Delafosse with the group of girls who benefit from our sponsorship program to keep them in school.
Actually, one of our main action poles is education as a tool for girls empowerment as girls are "in the making" for becoming tomorrow's leaders.
For yesterday's conference, we invited two wonderful ladies from the organizations OneWorld and ACTIONAID. Both ladies were from Benin and were just balls of energy. One representative from UNESCO was also there, as she happens to be this year's president of our group. UNESCO blessed us with goodies, as they actually partner with us on this project.
We kicked off the conference with exercises to break down on stereotypes imposed by tradition on what a woman represents in Africa and in the developing world in general, what it means to be a muslim girl in today's world and challenges, what it means to get an education and what it does for a village, a community, a country, a world!
At the end, we - Inner Wheel ladies, the women of the Rotary International Club, as well as teachers who attended, the panelists, and the high school girls - left with a renewed sense of our role as leaders of this world = a role we, too often, deliberately and conveniently choose to release.
At Inner Wheel, we organized a conference local high school Lycée Delafosse with the group of girls who benefit from our sponsorship program to keep them in school.
Actually, one of our main action poles is education as a tool for girls empowerment as girls are "in the making" for becoming tomorrow's leaders.
For yesterday's conference, we invited two wonderful ladies from the organizations OneWorld and ACTIONAID. Both ladies were from Benin and were just balls of energy. One representative from UNESCO was also there, as she happens to be this year's president of our group. UNESCO blessed us with goodies, as they actually partner with us on this project.
We kicked off the conference with exercises to break down on stereotypes imposed by tradition on what a woman represents in Africa and in the developing world in general, what it means to be a muslim girl in today's world and challenges, what it means to get an education and what it does for a village, a community, a country, a world!
At the end, we - Inner Wheel ladies, the women of the Rotary International Club, as well as teachers who attended, the panelists, and the high school girls - left with a renewed sense of our role as leaders of this world = a role we, too often, deliberately and conveniently choose to release.
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| "Help my hand write my future!" |
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| We did a few role plays and exercises to bring the leaders out of these more than intelligent girls. |
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