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Title: Why we should empower women in developing countries | Lior zanesku | TEDxMisgavAsifSecondarySchool
Published: 2017-09-13
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lz0hhH2gMk
hi my name is Lee or and I like to start off with a question have you ever asked yourself what reality do I wake up to personally I wake up to a reality in which I go to school in school I read and write I am exposed to diverse topics and different subjects getting to learn more and more each and every day I wake up to
a society that encourages me to speak up say what I think and have an opinion on just about everything I wake up to a world that gives me up the privilege to choose how to live my life I am free to dream of what ever I want to become knowing I have the option to do so I have the option of choice now imagine yourself a
girl just like me but in a parallel universe on a different planet this girl wakes up to finding out she doesn't have a school and if she does have one it's either too far away or too accessible also her family needs help with the housework so education can't really be the first priority for this girl wakes up into being early married with children which leads her
to more poverty more housework more family care and if there was ever a dream of her becoming something bigger dad's dream had to be neglected she is doomed from the start he is destined to repeat the cycle that her mother her grandmother and her great grandmother has lived in a vicious vicious cycle let me share with you some data in countries ages fifteen to twenty four
I have not completed primary school that means they don't have the skills needed for work more than that two thirds of the seven hundred and seventy four million illiterate people in the world are women see this isn't happening on a parallel world on a different universe this is the real stories of girls and women in developing countries so why do the th the fax shocked me
so much why am I so concerned about this research shows that's an educated women is more likely to be independent she is more likely to find a job she is less likely to marry at an early age and have children she is more likely to raise her children healthy because she knows more about hygiene practices she is has more confidence to demand that her children's nutritional
needs are met but the main thing the education does to women is to empower them women who are empowered all more aware for their rights and more confident to demand them women who are empowered are more confident to break social norms such as home abuse they can make their own decision so how can we break this vicious cycle while empowering these ladies and doing it through
education I believe the answer to that waist deep in evolution the base of our being since ancient times we've been living in groups take for example tribes why did we live in tribes probably for survival matters it's more safer for you to walk in the jungle with a group that has your back then walk alone it's more easier for you to catch our dinner in a
group then catch it by yourself but there's more to that you see tribal passionate runs deep there's glue the clues them together because of their beliefs their common faith brings them to a feeling of oneness so how can disk tribes be like us I mean the commute the power the community is it's huge you see take for example this woman this is when Garima Aussie in
nineteen seventy seven she formed a group of women planting trees providing for themselves by themselves up the food and fire would this woman has created a big buzz around the power of community that is exactly what our idea is based on our idea is based onto main and why is our idea so sufficient because it is a pliable in any developing country using nothing but the
female society itself so the first step is it's taken a local leader gather women around in the mean assumption is each woman has a different field of knowledge for example knowing a different language knowing how to see you cook nurture cell each one specializes in a different field of knowledge meaning they have more now knowledge as a team as a group that has one they will
teach each other they will give and receive enriching each other's skill sets they're more confident now to face the world because they know more it's much like the internet if you think about it huge network between people sharing knowledge to make each other intellectual by the minute but let's take it to the next step our second step the program is to have these women come up
with the mutual goal according to the problems there are many problems in their society even smiles one small ones they can fix together using only each other and their shared skill sets you see they can work together to achieve this goal and they don't need anything else other than that we will help them on the behalf of the program with any material supplies they will need
but the goal only be met but the power of the two soon there will be more goals more teams more groups sharing knowledge they will raise awareness of the power that the knowledge gives them why is this so important because imagine what this woman wakes up to right now this woman wakes up to a world where she knows in a few days she has her groove
meeting a place where she can express herself which you can show herself she can rise of her potential this woman wakes up to a world where she is confident in herself in her abilities and her say in any matter this woman sees the power the education grants her and she will want more if you can get more she can demand more the society will be more
aware of their abilities that woman have because of knowledge and hopefully pressure local governments and society and self to invest in education therefore a society will invest in the empowerment of women women are the largest untapped pool of human potential so let's wake up to a world in which any woman take this potential fly with it
