When you’re comforting someone, do you say, “I know how you feel”? I recently realized that a person really doesn’t know how another person feels when my sister told me of the sad story of a mother whose two sons were among the victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 which crashed and burned in… Read More It’s Not the Same
She had been thinking about him and their dinner date all day. She kept telling herself that she was just excited because he was her favorite cousin. Yet, why did her heart skip a beat every time she thought about him? And why did it bother her that he had a girlfriend? “So, tell me… Read More Dinner With Rehoboam
I stood before the shed where they found my friend, Danny. We used to hang out every day, daydreaming about how we were going to change the world. He wanted to be a lawyer for the poor and disadvantaged while I dreamed of being a social worker. Danny was more than a friend to me. … Read More Danny
[T]he more I traveled and met with girls and learned from experts about this issue, the more I realized that the barrier to girls’ education isn’t just resources. It’s also about attitudes and beliefs – the belief that girls simply aren’t worthy of an education; that women should have no role outside the home; that… Read More Take the Pledge
I barely caught the headline about a South African girl who was raped and badly beaten. I searched for the story on the Internet and came across some startling information. Apparently South Africa is known as the “rape capital”. According to Women’s groups, a woman is raped every 26 seconds. The rate of sexual violence… Read More Rape in South Africa
My heart goes out to the families who lost their loved ones in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. I was horrified when I learned that 26 people lost their lives and that 20 of them were children as young as six years old. I saw the face of one of these innocent victims tonight–Emilie… Read More Elementary School Tragedy
Two women, worlds apart and living very different lives. Their worlds collided when Nazanin Afshin-Jam opened her email one afternoon and saw a message marked “Urgent.” Nazanin Afshin-Jam is an Iranian-Canadian model, singer, and human rights activist. She is a former Miss World Canada and Miss World first runner-up, and has been an advocate for human rights in… Read More The Tale of Two Nazanins
Notes to Women 