female empowerment
Last updated by mrr2123 on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 21:15.
Dream Weavers is a student-run organization founded by my peers and I at Columbia officially this year. The initial founder was Kai Zhang, and the current Presidents are Alba Mota and Taylor Ramsey. I am an Executive Board member. Dream Weavers have a relationship with the Asociacion Adimat, a woman’s crafts cooperative in San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala, whom our program focuses on currently.
Last updated by aliawj on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 20:34.
Emerge (www.emergeglobal.org) grew out of Ma-Sevana, the only facility in Sri Lanka for young women, ages 10-18, who are survivors of rape or incest. Beginning as a jewelry workshop, Emerge flourished into a powerful tool for personal transformation. Through the act of crafting jewelry, these young women found a means of rejuvenation.
Last updated by ConnieIP on Fri, 06/22/2007 - 14:26.
Even in the year 2007, women earn only $.77 to the dollar compared to their male counterparts and are underrepresented in many science fields. As a part of one agencies efforts to close this gap (Expanding Your Horizons), I want to create a youth-led project, Expanding Your Horizons for Teens Girls. This project is created for girls and entirely run by young women in partnership with several local middle schools and it aims to serve junior high school girls (ages 11-14) by exposing them to careers in mathematic and scientific fields.
