Blog 9

I found a non-governmental organization called Global Fund for Women, which is a nonprofit grantmaking foundation that advances women's rights worldwide. It is a network of men and women who believe that "ensuring women's full equality and participation in society is one of the most effective ways to build a just, peaceful, and sustainable world." They do this by raising funds from a variety of sources and and making grants to women-led organizations.

These are some of the reviews and success stories that I found:

"We want to raise the status of rural women, prepare them for the market economy and create conditions in which women are able to make a living wage.” — Bubuzura Azhumudinova, founder of Eldik Uzda

“What we really want is to change violent attitudes and behaviors. We are trying to find the best way to introduce elements for prevention and protection against family violence.” — Fátima Millón, former director, Red de Mujeres Contra la Violencia

“Women for Women’s Human Rights has [made a] great contribution to the women’s movement in Turkey. Three years ago, they organized women’s groups to change the Turkish Civil and Family Code, and they got the government to change the laws.” — Nurcan Baysal, GFW Advisor

I truly think that this organization is worth giving money to because they are trying to help women all over the world. Their main purpose is to advocate and defend women's human rights and they truly use every penny that is donated towards issues concerning women. The money is distributed to issues such as: expanding civic and political participation, advancing health and sexual/reproductive rights, increasing access to education, fostering social change philanthropy, and ensuring gender-based violence. This organization aims at fixing the inequality problems women face everyday and also in promoting justice for every woman in the world. I want to donate to this organization!

Reading:

In chapter 8 of FIFE, hooks discusses global feminism and how it needs to be achieved in other countries as well as the United States. It begins by discussing white upper class women and how they dominate the movement and often leave out other races and poor women. It then discusses neocolonial paternalism, which was enacted to keep people of color out of the picture so that the upper class white women would represent feminism. I think that this is wrong and every women, incuding women of color, should have a say in feminism and should be allowed to voice their opinions freely. I feel that this is necessary for the feminism movement to work. If the white women are the only ones making the decisions, only the things in their interest will be achieved. I feel that all women should work together so that the feminism movement can prosper. The reading was very interesting and I enjoyed it because I really made me think a lot about this issue.