This is important to me. Please read. Thanks!
I posted this about a month ago. The movie is this Thursday, so I'm posting again.
Women and girls are the most impoverished, discriminated-against group in the world. Consider the following:
* Of the 1.3 billion people living in absolute poverty around the globe, 70 percent are women and girls.
* Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, yet earn only 10 percent of the income.
* Women produce half the world’s food, yet own only 1 percent of its land.
* Women make up two-thirds of the estimated 876 million adults worldwide who cannot read or write; and girls make up two-thirds of 77 million children not attending school.
In most societies, women face discrimination, exploitation and exclusion that limit their access to resources and assets. This disempowerment is a universal factor in extreme poverty. Rather than working with women as victims of poverty, more and more non-governmental organizations are working to empower marginalized women to challenge and change the contexts in which they live.
Women's empowerment offers a pathway out of extreme poverty and toward dignity and security - for women, their families and whole communities. There is a movie this Thursday at many theaters around the country called A Powerful Noise
On the evening of Thursday, March 5, CARE and ONE
will present A POWERFUL NOISE Live in 450 movie theatres nationwide.
This special one-night event will feature the acclaimed documentary, "A Powerful Noise," followed by a town hall discussion with Nicholas Kristof, Christy Turlington Burns, Dr. Helene Gayle and others broadcast live from New York City.
Here's a synopsis of the film:
Hanh is an HIV-positive widow in Vietnam. Nada, a survivor of the Bosnian war. And Jacqueline works the slums of Bamako, Mali. Three very different lives. Three vastly different worlds. But they share something in common: Power. These women are each overcoming gender barriers to rise up and claim a voice in their societies. Through their empowerment and ability to empower others, Hanh, Nada and Jacqueline are sparking remarkable changes. Fighting AIDS. Rebuilding communities. Educating girls.
* Hanh learned that she had contracted HIV after her husband and daughter died from AIDS. Bouncing back from despair, she started a self-help group in Vietnam, called Immortal Flower, to give people living with HIV/AIDS a place for support, counseling and health care.
* Nada is a working mother of three children. As a refugee, she survived the Bosnian War. Her women’s association, Maya Kravica, is helping ease hostilities between Serbs and Bosniaks in a region marred by war crimes and massive destruction. Nada is building an agricultural cooperative to offer employment opportunities for war widows, and fair trade markets for families to sell their crops and livestock.
* Jacqueline, better known as “Madame Urbain” fights forced labor practices in the slums of Bamako, Mali. Madame Urbain stands up for the rights of powerless girls who are often abused in the workplace or on the streets of the big city. Her organization, APAF, provides girls a basic education, teaches them vocational skills and places them in safe jobs
Here's a link where you can find out if a theater near you will be showing it. http://www.apowerfulnoise.org/about.html
I hope you can go. Thanks for reading.
Women and girls are the most impoverished, discriminated-against group in the world. Consider the following:
* Of the 1.3 billion people living in absolute poverty around the globe, 70 percent are women and girls.
* Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, yet earn only 10 percent of the income.
* Women produce half the world’s food, yet own only 1 percent of its land.
* Women make up two-thirds of the estimated 876 million adults worldwide who cannot read or write; and girls make up two-thirds of 77 million children not attending school.
In most societies, women face discrimination, exploitation and exclusion that limit their access to resources and assets. This disempowerment is a universal factor in extreme poverty. Rather than working with women as victims of poverty, more and more non-governmental organizations are working to empower marginalized women to challenge and change the contexts in which they live.
Women's empowerment offers a pathway out of extreme poverty and toward dignity and security - for women, their families and whole communities. There is a movie this Thursday at many theaters around the country called A Powerful Noise
On the evening of Thursday, March 5, CARE and ONE
will present A POWERFUL NOISE Live in 450 movie theatres nationwide.
This special one-night event will feature the acclaimed documentary, "A Powerful Noise," followed by a town hall discussion with Nicholas Kristof, Christy Turlington Burns, Dr. Helene Gayle and others broadcast live from New York City.
Here's a synopsis of the film:
Hanh is an HIV-positive widow in Vietnam. Nada, a survivor of the Bosnian war. And Jacqueline works the slums of Bamako, Mali. Three very different lives. Three vastly different worlds. But they share something in common: Power. These women are each overcoming gender barriers to rise up and claim a voice in their societies. Through their empowerment and ability to empower others, Hanh, Nada and Jacqueline are sparking remarkable changes. Fighting AIDS. Rebuilding communities. Educating girls.
* Hanh learned that she had contracted HIV after her husband and daughter died from AIDS. Bouncing back from despair, she started a self-help group in Vietnam, called Immortal Flower, to give people living with HIV/AIDS a place for support, counseling and health care.
* Nada is a working mother of three children. As a refugee, she survived the Bosnian War. Her women’s association, Maya Kravica, is helping ease hostilities between Serbs and Bosniaks in a region marred by war crimes and massive destruction. Nada is building an agricultural cooperative to offer employment opportunities for war widows, and fair trade markets for families to sell their crops and livestock.
* Jacqueline, better known as “Madame Urbain” fights forced labor practices in the slums of Bamako, Mali. Madame Urbain stands up for the rights of powerless girls who are often abused in the workplace or on the streets of the big city. Her organization, APAF, provides girls a basic education, teaches them vocational skills and places them in safe jobs
Here's a link where you can find out if a theater near you will be showing it. http://www.apowerfulnoise.org/about.html
I hope you can go. Thanks for reading.