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Copyright © 2008 The Women’s International Perspective
Tebrikler (congratulations) from Turkey. It has been a pleasure watching the WIP grow from your launch last year to this, your first anniversary. What you are doing is so vital. Thank you for doing it. I'm very proud and inspired by what you've accomplished and look forward to watching what the coming year brings. Keep up the great work! Let us know how we can help you.
Posted by TaraLA | March 5, 2008 10:32 AM
Thank you for highlighting Philo Ikonya's statement that it must be women who find the solutions. In answer to your question, "Are things changing?", I would like to tell you about an organization that is working to empower women leaders to be part of the change.
Philo Ikonya and I both graduated from the Women Leaders for the World (WLW) program in 2006 that was given by the Global Women's Leadership Network (GWLN) - she from Kenya, and I an American Ex-pat living in Turkey. GWLN believes that women are the world's largest untapped resource for leadership and it is their goal to empower 5,000 women leaders by the year 2011. Believe me, they are well on their way.
They graduated their first class of women leaders in 2005. Just recently the GWLN announced their list of 2008 WLW participants. I proudly nominated Kate Daniels to be one of this year's participants. These women come from all over the world and are dedicated to topics ranging from politics, education, poverty, the environment, media, and culture.
Up until now, this has been a residential program offered on site at Santa Clara University in Northern California. But the GWLN recognizes that they will increase their impact by taking programs "in country" thereby eliminating the need for participants to tackle such challenges as learing English, getting visas, or buying expensive plane tickets. I am pleased to say that one of the first GWLN International Outreach ventures is underway in Turkey where I currently reside, and I am happy to be involved in that venture.
Change is happening. It is happening all over the world, and women are a part of it. I invite you to learn more about the Global Women's Leadership Network (www.glwn.org) and the various programs they offer. As well, I encourage everyone who reads this to honor her own leadership potential and ask herself how she is taking her place in finding solutions in this time of "global crisis".
I will finish with my own question, is it really a crisis, or is humanity just learning how to keep up with our own growth and evolution?
Posted by TaraLA | March 5, 2008 9:30 AM