Women of Substance on Women's day

If I wanted to award an honour to an outstanding group of women, then this would be a great place to begin. They live in a very poor area bruised and oppressed by culture, tradition and an accident of birth. They are not unique, but their response to adversity certainly demands our respect and admiration.
They are part of a women's cluster we have worked with for the past four years.
Today this group are on a literacy and numeracy course in Adult Education. Many have never gone to school and many began this course starting at Standard 1, some are now in Secondary school.
Their Self Help Group are involved in saving small money and lending to each other enabling them to do small but profitable business ventures, so that they can pay for their families to go to school, have enough to eat and escape from the direst of poverty they previously endured.
They have a project with our horticulturalist on growing vegetables and fruit trees. They have a programme of helping women in prison. They have a programme of helping women and babies in hospitals and on and on.
They are beautiful and amazing women who got half a chance, a bit of inspiration, education and hope. They grabbed it with open arms and ran with it. They didn't need bureaucrats of an international delegation. They just needed someone to believe in their ability to solve their own problems. Who knows how far they can go, BUT they will never go back.
They are my international women of substance for this day 2013

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