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"Give to a man and he'll eat, Give to a woman and a whole village eats"

It is now universally agreed in aid organizations worldwide that empowering the women of a community will empower the children and the men as well. Women are caretakers and nurturers, watching over others. They tend to use practical wisdom to make decisions and they consider consequences as they affect the whole, rather than a single purpose. The women on these pages are making an impact, opening doors and opportunities for the people around them. They are women in their power, feeding hungry, spreading literacy, healing wounds, providing support. They are working toward peace and succeeding.

 Girl Powered Peace is an extension of   www.WorldPeaceEmerging.com, showcasing people who are making positive change.

What you can expect to find on this great lens is... 

The most Amazing women in the world!

I know that for every problem in the world, there is someone hard at work with the solution. So I spend every waking hour on a mission to find those people, and bring you their stories. I find it hard to believe that these amazing women are not on the front page of every major newspaper, magazine, etc. inspiring the masses, but they aren't. So I took it on as a personal challenge to give these amazing women the celebrity status they most certainly deserve. You to can take part by sending this lens to everyone you know, and I will do the rest. If you know anybody that should be showcased on this lens, let me know.

Lots of Love, Nate (thats me to the right)

Lens of the Year 2007 

Honorable Mention

All I have to say is that I'm Honored. (Pun intended)

Lens of the Day 2008 

Wednesday April 16th

Thanks Megan, You Rock! XOXOXOXO

Training World Leaders. 

Molding conscious leaders into the wave of the future

Myra Murphy Jacob is to me, perhaps the most inspiring person that I've ever met. While the rest of us bust our butts trying to save the world one person at a time - (most of the hungry and destitute in a bad way because of political, not natural causes) - Myra decided to change the world by churning out new leaders- strong and powerful, well trained leaders in global sustainability - not your ordinary types. If thats not the fastest way to create lasting change, then I don't know what is.

Myra's program is called Sustainable Global Leadership Alliance (SGLA). She researched the best programs available today and brought their dynamic teachers together, to grow young adults into the ones we are waiting for.

FYI: I've met with Myra, been to her course outline talks, and been schmoozed by her brilliant pupils. All I have to say is that if you have kids, that want to make change in this world, get their (excuse the expression) ass's in a seat. Follow the link below for more information on this amazing program... Your Welcome.

Check out her story at www.worldpeaceemerging.com

Adventure to Mongolia, Rescuing a dying culture. 

Saving Mongolia one woman at a time

Susan Bradbury is a soft spoken acupuncturist, someone you can usually find in her hole-in-the-wall office in Bellingham, WA, taking her time with patients. To sit a moment with her, she is so gentle that you would never imagine her trekking the wildest frontiers, working to alleviate poverty and rescue a dying culture. But she lives a second life. In a chance meeting just days after her return from Mongolia, Susan told us the story of her month long journey across the roadless tundra. She shared with us her amazing submersion into an ancient culture, and the projects she launched that just might save it.

Check out her story at www.worldpeaceemerging.com also, follow her blog at Ambassador for Peace. What's Blog'n

The First Female Chief. 

Leaving loggers in a stupor, and trees on their land.

Nana, known as Mama Koko, became the first female chief of her village. As such, she fought for the rights of the villagers, whose cocoa trees were being destroyed by the timber industry. When loggers destroyed and refused to repair a bridge, she mobilized her fellow villagers to create a roadblock. Her superior, the "stool chief,"complained when she exposed the corrupt relationship he had with the timber industry. He had her arrested, and she spent a month in jail. After CARE helped secure her release, she returned to seek restitution for her community's ruined farmland. Mama Koko has successfully decreased the amount of logging in her territory, and her strength and position as chief make her a strong role model for the young women in her village.

She Spoke Out, Look what Happened. 

Taking charge means freedom for Ecuadorians.

Transito, a legendary human rights figure, is often referred to as the "Rosa Parks of Ecuador." After the Spanish conquest, many indigenous people were stripped of their rights and forced to serve as indentured servants in the hacienda system. In 1926, at the age of 17,Transito spoke out against a hacienda owner who had been molesting her. She was sent to jail for five months for protesting her abuse. Upon her release, she became a legend for speaking out about the plight of indigenous Ecuadorians. Later, she was instrumental in organizing a strike by indigenous farmers, which catalyzed a newfound respect for indigenous peoples in Ecuadorian politics and in society at large.

Saving the Sal Trees 

Taking a stand for what is right!

Chhattisgarh, INDIA--"Zindabad!" shouts Bindia Bai, pressing her hands together in greeting as she sits down on the hard-packed mud floor to meet with fellow village women in the sunny courtyard of her home. This revolutionary rallying cry meaning "victory" echoes throughout Batka Behra village and has been spreading across the remote tribal hills of Chhattisgarh state in recent months.

A new movement challenging government corruption and resource co-option is building among these ancient people.

Read More at www.WorldPeaceEmerging.com

The Power of One 

One womans mission to bring her people out of poverty

Adjoa is the youngest of four wives and spends most of her time in the field tending the grain and corn crops. The other wives share the household chores, but Adjoa prefers working communally on the farm with the other women in the village, instead of spending time alone in the kitchen over a hot smoky fire. Last year, CARE helped Adjoa form a thirty-member women's savings and credit association. Having access to loans allowed the women to afford preventive health care items for their children, such as mosquito nets and medicine, that their husbands were hesitant to purchase. During their group meetings, the women also discussed family planning and women's rights. They discovered that they had a more powerful voice collectively than as individuals. Gradually, they became less shy about speaking out at community meetings, and now the women contribute substantially to the previously all-male village civic meetings. As word of the success of the Bowku women's group has spread, the women are being asked to help form women's associations in neighboring villages as well.

When Praying Isn't Enough 

Rescuing Tibetan nuns from persecution

In 1991, a group of sixty-six Tibetan nuns appeared on the streets of Dharamsala, India. Fleeing Chinese persecution, the refugees had nowhere to live, nothing to eat, and no support network. Renchin, a Tibetan refugee herself, helped the nuns find housing and establish a nunnery. Her efforts grew into the Tibetan Nuns Project, an organization that provides exiled nuns with shelter, health care, and, notably, advanced educational opportunities. Traditionally,Tibetan nuns have been taught how to pray, but not the meaning of their prayers.With no direct lineage to the teachings of Buddha, the nuns lacked the ancestry necessary for ordainment. Only monks could become ordained teachers and, through their teaching, support themselves. By giving the nuns the education necessary to become teachers, Renchin has opened the door to their economic independence.

From Farm to Food Bank 

One woman with a mission

Rio Thomas took her kids to the neighborhood food bank to teach them to volunteer in their community. In just a few hours each week, they got a startling look at the magnitude of the hunger problem right in their own American neighborhood. Their neighborhood is like most others: nice houses in a row, big supermarket a few blocks away....workers building new houses, delivering packages, cheerful at the post office. No signs of hunger, no homeless on the sidewalks, no headlines in the paper. But there in the food bank, they saw that there were hundreds of families without enough to eat, living right near by. Local folks with kids, unemployed yes, but also people with jobs, hard workers who still couldn't feed their families on the tiny wages they received. Seeing her neighbors were hungry, Rio decided to do something about it. She took some trips out to local farms and talked with the farmers, where she got an even bigger surprise.

Go to www.WorldPeaceEmerging.com to read the full story.

Improving Lives 

Getting rights for sex workers.

At age 13, before she had even begun menstruating, Akhi was sold into a brothel by her aunt. After working for several years, she became highly depressed and attempted suicide. Her failed attempt brought about an epiphany: Her life could be used to improve the lot of her fellow sex workers. Akhi accomplished the near-impossible task of gaining support from religious, political, and social groups to create an organization to advocate for sex workers' rights. Despite being arrested three times, she prevailed and, in 1998, formed the "Nani Mukti Sangha" organization. Since the group commenced, condom use in the brothel has increased from near zero to eighty-six percent, and the number of 12- to 13-year-olds recruited into the brothels has decreased. Today, she continues to fight tenaciously for sex workers' rights, and is said to have such a forceful personality that even the police are afraid of her.

Peace X Peace 

Women supporting women

The heart and soul of Peace X Peace is the Global Network, which came about after 9/11. Patricia Smith Melton sat up, looked at the screen, saw the many men who seemed to be in charge of creating world peace after a horrible catastrophe like 9/11 and said: "Where are the women? What does peace mean? And how do you empower women to build peace in their backyard, given how, at this point, it is women and children who suffer the most when a war happens?"

Go to www.WorldPeaceEmerging.com to read the full story on this amazing project.

Defying The Taliban 

Risking life and limb to teach young women

Fahima, a teacher since 1985, was one of thousands of professional women who lost their jobs when the Taliban came to power in 1996. In defiance of the Taliban andat great risk to herself, Fahima opened a clandestine school for young girls. At one point, 130 girls were coming to her home each week to study math, science, and the local language, Pushto. When the girls were asked why they were going to Fahima's house, they said she was their aunt. Although harassed by the religious police and threatened with beatings and worse, Fahima continued operating her school for girls until the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

Women Empowered 

Putting an end to female genital mutilation

Abay was born into a culture in which girls are circumcised before age 12. When it came time for her circumcision ceremony, Abay said, "No." Her mother insisted: An uncircumcised woman would be ostracized and could never marry, Abay was told. When her mother's demands became unbearable, she ran away to live with a sympathetic godfather. Eight years later, Abay returned to her village and began work as a station agent for CARE, supervising the opening of a primary school and a health clinic and the construction of a well. After five years, she finally convinced one of the women to let her film a circumcision ceremony. She showed the film to the male leaders. They had never seen a female circumcision and were horrified. Two weeks later, the male leaders called a special meeting and voted fifteen to two to end female circumcision in their village.

Donate A Dollar To Peace 

If you and a ten of your friends decided that donating one dollar to peace was something you could afford would you?

one dollar can truly make a difference in someones life, and we show you exactly where that dollar goes.

When you donate a dollar to peace we show you who's lives you've changed, with the money we raised together. Each project you donate to will be able to expand their reach, and save more lives. Together we can change the world!

Go to Donate A dollar To Peace find a story and click the donate button.

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