A View of My Daughter’s Childhood She pulled violently away from me with shouts I saw but did not hear and tore rudely through other pedestrians who lost packages, stumbled. A block away, her coat a-sail, still she shouldered on, offending. Behind rushing forms I lost sight of her, caught sight of her hair, swinging, a leg, now and then, until she slowed, lunging and panting further on and walked […]
Girls will rise
Girl Rising: A girl with courage is a revolution. This is the gut-wrenching, heart-expanding documentary about nine girls–from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Nepal, Peru, and Sierra Leone–who represent millions of girls denied schooling, forced into marriage, sold into slavery, who irrepressibly persevere to rise up. Directed by Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins with cinematography by David Rush Morrison, Girl Rising profiles girls like Suma, a Nepalese girl sold […]
Martin Willitts, Jr. | One girl…and God is not amused
One Girl One girl; that is what it takes to say “no” in a world of men thinking they know what is best for the girl, never asking. One girl; that is what it takes to run away, in a direction she does not know, except it is not where she came from, and she fears going back. One girl; is a dangerous voice to the men thinking […]
The state of the girl
Women make up half of the world’s population and yet represent 70 percent of the world’s poor. Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, produce half of the world’s food, but earn only ten percent of the world’s income and own less than one percent of the world’s property. Girls born into poverty are subject to abandonment and left to die through the practice of female infanticide. As youngsters, […]
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