Support Their Dreams - International Day of the Girl Child
Girls Deserve the Chance to Reach Their DreamsWherever you go around the world, you will find young girls with big dreams. Girls like Fatima, who dreams of being a scientist, so that her name can live forever through her experiments. Girls like Simrah, who dreams of being an Olympic swimmer, because training as an athlete has taught her that “the only way for me is forward.” Girls like Areeba, who dreams of becoming a diplomat, saying “If we believe in ourselves, everyone will believe in us.”
Girls whose dreams — and determination to pursue them — reveal tremendous courage and resolve, in a world where seeking something better for themselves can literally put their lives at risk.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/salma-hayek-pinault/girls-deserve-the-chan...
Any revolution needs certain fundamental rights that we all support everyday, an overriding concern. One of those is the rights of girls, and all children, to develop their dreams. We want all of our children to live in a world of peace and plenty. In a world where no matter where they are born in the world, they can obtain their dream, no matter how large or small. We are fighting for something of great beauty and righteousness.
Celebrate our girls around the world.
Comments
Thanks for this one. I've got a granddaughter I'll celebrate
today, although I do that every day.
I can't help but think of all the girls being deprived of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness because of the all the greedy, power hungry fucks in this country who are waging wars, conducting regime changes, destroying countries, killing little girls. Under Bill Clinton, the sanctions he and Albright championed against Iraq caused the deaths of half a million children. How can anyone excuse that?
The best way we can celebrate the children of the world is to keep them safe from the warmongers.
Every damn day. :)
If we aren't living and working to make this planet better for every child then we should just get out of the way.
Wonderful diary. Thank you.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
The Bolivian NGO Experience
Thank you Big Al and D. Janet for commenting. This essay has been "voted down" so I appreciate the input.
It is obvious that very few care about my premise, "Any revolution needs certain fundamental rights that we all support everyday, an overriding concern. One of those is the rights of girls, and all children, to develop their dreams."
Maybe because the fucking neocon war criminals have preempted girls as a justification to kill children and/or enslave them to corporate police state sweatshops? Does anyone imagine that I am supporting the Clinton vultures' "women and girls" initiative? Or the UN occupation of Haiti?
Maybe I am not clear enough. Being from a poor country who has experienced first hand NGO's disaster profiteering, and having been a successful Bolivian advocate of tossing USAID and some of the bigger international NGO's out of Bolivia, as well as putting into place stringent requirements for aid projects... I had hoped that over time I had made it clear that my support is for local initiatives, run by local people and funded via the grass roots and local volunteer labor organized by the local communities. That, in short, is my revolutionary proposal for helping girls and all children to follow their dreams.
That is why I posted, at the very earliest moment, a number of local organizations in Haiti that need our support. Here is a recent article:
Rebuilding Haiti, One Commune at a Time
I also want to mention that the Cubans, for all they have their own disaster from Matthew, have already sent 800 doctors to Haiti. I have experience with Cuban doctors. They were in our villages in Bolivia, they did cataract operations for free, they supplied my family and I and everyone else with free consultations and generic (probably illegal vis-a-vis NAFTA etc.) medicines, they trained our Bolivian staff and people in general with preventative medicines and even administrative know-how for helping more people within our budgets and infrastructure. They operated on one of my poor nieces in their clinic in the city.
So, please, now that this essay has been rejected by the simple expedient of ignoring it, do not mistake my celebrating girls and/or revolutionary campaign for children's rights as a trojan horse for the UN/Clinton Foundation/Red Cross/ Disaster Capitalists.
I am, and I thought it has been made clear by my previous essays, advocating for communities and direct funding/support of local communities and their children rights and aid programs. No middlepersons, no international NGO's, none of the Mother Teresa/small loans (what a fucking enslavement device those are) fraud operations that make big headlines.
That is, or should be, a very large component of any revolutionary goal.
Note: I may turn this into a separate essay as this one is on the edge of disappearing.
From the Light House.
Haitians say,
From the Light House.
Geez
One up vote. That is probably from my niece, LOL.
From the Light House.
Nice diary. Thank you.