Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Children'
The Courage to Create Social Change
by Katharine Daniels, Executive Editor One light amongst the darkness of the tragedy that befell Newtown, Connecticut and this nation last week is the collective outrage that persists. In daily conversations with friends and family, throughout the social media, and...
Religious Beliefs Prevent Kenyan Parents from Seeking Conventional Medicine for Children
by Rachel Muthoni -Kenya- In a bid to keep their religious faith, some Kenyan parents do not take their children to hospitals, even for the most basic immunization. Such parents believe that only God heals and seeking conventional medicine is...
India Surges Towards An Education Democracy
by Priyanka Bhardwaj -India- Every afternoon 8-year-old Raj Kumar and his younger sibling trudge along the ten kilometer expanse of Golf Course Road to take free classes at a school ensconced in a posh pocket of Gurgaon in the Indian...
With Love and Respect, a Syrian Mom Dares Bashar
by Aloosh Devrim -Syria- Sunk deep in thoughts, Rania sits alone in her dark room oblivious to the thumping of feet on the roof where neighbor’s children are playing. The screams of Yousaf, her three-month-old, and the ringing telephone simultaneously...
Food Is Priority for Children Evicted From Kenya’s Mau Forest
by Rachel Muthoni -Kenya- Since they were evicted from the Mau Forest complex two years ago, more than 10,000 families have known no better life than that of suffering, sleeping in the cold, hunger, and lack of access to basic...
What the Future Holds for Flood-Affected Pakistanis: Will Zuhra Go to School Again?
by Zubeida Mustafa -Pakistan- Zuhra is four and she has recently learned her Sindhi alphabet – 52 letters in all. She wants the world to know about her achievement. When I met Zuhra at the Indus Resource Centre’s (IRC) tent...
Marian Wright Edelman's "Lessons From Noah's Ark"
On Saturday, October 2, an estimated 175,000 people joined together at the Lincoln Memorial for the One Nation Working Together rally for jobs, justice, and public education. Marian Wright Edelman is a lifelong advocate for disadvantaged Americans and is the...
Haiti’s Incarcerated Minors: My Friends, the Children Ask for Freedom
by Alice Speri -Haiti- Eleven-year-old Carmen Suze quarreled with a classmate and ended up in jail. Barely audible, she explains that her friend had lifted her skirt and had been the first to throw a rock. The plastic butterfly hairclips...
India’s Fastest Growing Crime: Rape and the Fight for Justice
by Priyanka Bhardwaj - India - Last year’s World Economic Forum study on gender parity gave India a dismal ranking: 114th out of 134 nations. Only 77% of women are literate and just 23% are employed. UNICEF’s 2009 State of...
The Hard Way Out: Divorce by Khula
by Suad Hamada - Bahrain - Fadhila is only allowed to go to the toilet after asking permission from her husband, she also puts up with his frequent demands for sex - even when she’s menstruating – but neither is...
A Brave New World: Women as Architects of Peace
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor & Founder, The WIP This past weekend I was invited to keynote the Global Women’s Conference at CSU Fullerton. It was a great opportunity for me to reflect on the journey that we’ve been on...
California’s Prison Spending Grows While the State Budget Shrinks
by Rachel Meyer - USA - As I sit and write this, a young man sits in County Jail awaiting his sentence. Three years ago he was involved in a fight while in juvenile hall for drug related charges. This...
Limiting Emissions: India Capitalizes on Natural Strengths and Community
by Lesley D. Biswas - India - Situated in the coastal regions of West Bengal and parts of Bangladesh, Sundarbans is the largest deltaic mangrove forest in the world and home to the endangered Royal Bengal Tiger. According to a...
Africa Steps Up the Fight Against Maternal and Child Deaths
by Pilirani Semu-Banda - Malawi - The very survival of women and children in Africa may depend on the newly-launched Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA). According to latest estimates by the African Union (AU), over...
Mama, Young and Beautiful: Celebrating Another Year of Ferocity
by Emily Rose Herzlin - USA - I’ve never been able to remember my parents’ ages. I wrote my dad a birthday poem one year that began: Dear Dad, don’t be blue, Just because you’re 53 or maybe 52. He...
The Harsh Economics of the Global Water Crisis: “water is the oil of this century”
by Julie Chowdhury - Sweden - Every morning when you wake up and perform what you may perceive as insignificant chores, you might not realize that for 2.6 billion people around the world, your morning shower or just one flush...
A Different Kind of Birthday Party
by Shenali Waduge - Sri Lanka - At only a year old, would a child know that she was in front of a cake attempting to blow out something called a candle? When my daughter turned one she was pretty...
A Current between Shores: On Aging
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - Around the time little girls become preoccupied with their own reflections, I remember scanning the various jars of creams and tonics on my mother’s make-up table. I couldn’t yet read so well, but I...
Saving Mothers, Saving Children: The 2008 Mother’s Report
by Marianne Taflinger - USA - In Sweden, a doctor delivers Sari, and her family celebrates what will be the beginning of a long life, probably 83 years or more. She’ll attend at least 17 years of school and if...
A Current between Shores: On Children
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - My sister doesn’t have any children. Neither does my female cousin, nor my sister-in-law. A close female friend of mine from college wants kids but her relationship woes and her career haven’t allowed for...
Child Rights Activist Betty Makoni “Lights Up the Dark" for Abused and Disadvantaged Young Girls
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - “The stories we listened to made us bleed inside, the genital wounds we later had to help nurse evoked us, the long distances we traveled every day and night to educate girls on their...
Germany’s Political Debate on the Role of the Family
by Vera von Kreutzbruck Germany • Hamburg boasts pint-sized anti-Nazi graffiti. Photograph by Photocapy. •The prominent German talk show host, Eva Herman, has been in the eye of the storm ever since she praised Hitler’s promotion of motherhood in a...
Breast-feeding Rates Decline Across Asia and the Pacific Posing Health Risks to Infants and Children
by Imelda V. Abaño Philippines • Photograph courtesy of IRRI •Susan Luknas, is a 26-year old mother from a small village in Bontoc, Mountain Province in the Northern Philippines. All six of her children were breastfed and never tasted anything...
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