Imagine
October 3, 2007
As I sat down this evening to write this post about Women for Women International and their Iraq program, I struggled to find the right words to convey to you the absolute need for programs such as these. Instead of words, I found images… Pictures in my mind and heart that spoke more clearly and more forcefully than any words read on a blog post:
Imagine a woman.
Imagine a mother.
Imagine a wife who has just learned that she is a now a widow… Just another one of many who have lost their husbands, their brothers, their fathers, their friends, to the ugly war tearing through their world. Imagine the look on her face as she watches her children play about her feet; the look on her heart as she realizes that she has nothing to offer them. She has no money, no education, no profitable skill, no hope.
Imagine this mother surrounded by a war… A war that makes widows out of women such as she. A war that makes pawns and tools of war of such as she. A war that makes victims of the innocent such as she.
Can you see her?
Can you see this woman? This mother?
Good.
Now help her.
Women for Women International helps women in conflict and post-conflict environments such as Iraq develop the skills necessary to grow from victim to survivor to active citizen. Their sponsorship program provides everything from basic life supplies like clean water, food, and shelter to the necessary education and training needed for these women to become wholly self-sufficient.
As I sat down this evening to write this post about Women for Women International and their Iraq program, I struggled to find the right words to convey to you the absolute need for programs such as these.
Instead of words, I found images… and this link.
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Courtney… I know from first hand experience how much joy having a “sister” via Women For Women has meant to Rocky. Each time she gets a letter from her, she beams. It’s a great organization.