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Huda Sosebee (Wife/Mother/Force for Good) |
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Monday, 26 July 2010 |
Posted by Steve Sosebee
15 July, 2010
 Huda Sosebee (nee Al-Masri), passed peacefully over to God”s loving embrace on July 15, 2009 in her home in Kent, Ohio with her beloved family, following a seven-month battle with Leukemia.
Huda was the head social worker for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF), where she touched the lives of thousands of sick and injured children throughout the Middle East.
Huda earned her degree in social work from Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem and a master’s degree in Public Health from Kent State University. In 1993, Huda began working as the head social worker for the PCRF.
Huda’s great human spirit touched the lives of dozens of injured children throughout the years, as she personally cared for them in her home in Kent while they received treatment in northeast Ohio. Nearly 1000 more children with different medical needs were touched by Huda’s loving hand, as she helped organize and place them for free medical care in the USA, Europe and the Middle East.
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Mallika Sarabhai On How Dance Can Change The World |
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Saturday, 24 July 2010 |
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Susan notes: Thanks to TED for making TED Talks downloadable and embeddable, and for providing the biographical information that goes along with them.
 At TEDIndia, Mallika Sarabhai, a dancer/actor/politician, tells a transformative story in dance -- and argues that the arts may be the most powerful way to effect change, whether political, social or personal.
Mallika Sarabhai is a powerhouse of communication and the arts in India. Educated in business, she now leads the Darpana dance company, which works in the Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi forms. She's also a writer, publisher, actor, producer, anchorwoman ... and all her varied forms of artistic engagement are wrapped around a deep social conscience.
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25 Inspiring Thoughts & Images To Match |
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Friday, 16 July 2010 |
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Haitian Women Drive Country Out Of Debris |
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Tuesday, 06 July 2010 |
 Cendra Guillaume walks into the dusty depot of manly machines, passes fellow female workers, and steps into the front office with a familiar look of determination.
Not one to sit around and wait, the wife, mother and heavy equipment operator gets right to the point: ``Where to today?''
In the months since the Haiti earthquake claimed an estimated 300,000 lives, women like Guillaume have been on the front lines of paving the way for this broken nation's reconstruction.
Theirs are the anonymous hands that steered the dead and dying to unmarked graves in black and white government dump trucks, tunneled through the rubble for foreign rescue teams and cleared debris from hundreds of blocked roads.
In the process, they are challenging the notion of a woman's traditional role in this machismo society, and restoring what many thought they had lost in the rubble: faith in the future.
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Brave Kakenya Builds Her Village’s First School For Girls |
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Monday, 28 June 2010 |
 Susan notes: this is a wonderfully told animated story narrated by Kakenya, the young woman whose life it depicts. Kakenya, who was betrothed at the age of five, cleverly used tribal traditions to find a way to get what she wanted: to become a teacher.
She was the first woman in her village to go to college. At the time this video was filmed, she was just finishing her Phd.
Kakenya went back to her village and built its first primary school for girls, a place she says, where they "can dream."
Thanks to Vital Voices for making Kakenya's story, and those of other changemakers around the world, available to inspire us.
Related links:
Vital Voices
More About African Women on AWR
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Fighting for Girls' Rights |
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Sunday, 27 June 2010 |
By Susan Macaulay
 Betty Makoni was beaten and raped as a child. When she was nine, she saw her father kill her mother.
But she is not a victim. She is a survivor,
activist and leader who turned her devastating childhood experiences
into a force for good in her native country Zimbabwe.
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Sex Slavery Survivor Gives Others Hope |
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Monday, 21 June 2010 |
 For Somaly Mam, laughter is as strong a weapon in her fight against human trafficking and sexual slavery as her own harrowing tale.
Born into extreme poverty in Cambodia and forced at age 12 to work as a sex slave, Mam has refused to let her horrifying past sour her present, and made it her mission to reach out to young women and girls broken by similar plights.
"Life, you have to laugh," she said Friday after recounting her story to DePaul students and faculty at the school's Lincoln Park campus.
Mam, who will make a commencement speech Saturday at DePaul's School for New Learning, heads an international organization based in Cambodia dedicated to rescuing women held as sex slaves across Southeast Asia. She's also the president of the Somaly Mam Foundation, which raises money to fund her efforts.
Mam claims to have saved about 4,000 young women and girls since starting her agency in 1996. Her work has the attention of actresses Susan Sarandon and Angelina Jolie, and last year, she was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People.
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Honouring Neda Agha Soltan On The Anniversary Of Her Death June 20, 2009 |
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Sunday, 20 June 2010 |
 Susan notes: One year ago today Neda Agha Soltan died in a street in Tehran. The following day, I and the rest of the world watched in horror as her dying moments were replayed for the world to see .
I blogged about how I felt at the time, and I became a supporter of the Green Movement for change in Iran. Today, on the anniversary of Neda’s death, she will be mourned by hundreds of thousands, including myself.
I post this hour-long HBO documentary here to honour her, as well as to honour freedom and justice for all in Iran and everywhere.
Related links:
Guardian Article
More About Neda & Iran On AWR
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UNAIDS Ambassador Annie Lennox Speaks Her Mind To Business Leaders |
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Wednesday, 09 June 2010 |
Susan notes: In addition to being one of the most successful female performers of our time, as well as the mother of two daughters, the amazing, awesome, outspoken Annie Lennox is a passionate AIDS activist. Listen to what she said to world leaders at the recent Work Smarter Global Health Action GBC Conference 2010
Related links:
Annie Lennox on AWR
Artist, activist and UN ambassador, Annie Lennox
gives voice to women with HIV
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