Lions & Tigers & Bears...Oh My!
Just kidding! But there were lots of goats and
donkeys!!
There are many adjectives we could use to describe the ProjectGROW day of celebration (long, hot, busy, loud) but the message we found most important was that
of women empowerment.
Women; noun: an adult human female.
Empowerment; noun: the process of becoming stronger and
more confident, especially in controlling one’s life and claiming one’s rights.
For those of you who don’t know, ProjectGROW was
developed by Dr. Vida Yakong (UBCO alumni BSN, MSN, PhD) based out of Ghana.
GROW. Ghana Rural Opportunities for Women. A project that
enables Ghanaian women to prosper because (as said so well by one of the guest
speakers):
Dr. Vida |
The aim of this day is celebration-celebrate good times
c’mon!- and it’s attended by an outstanding amount of women from the community,
the Chief (Tindana) + Elders, the local government director,
different personnel of Ghanaian health services, Dr. Vida herself and many
more. As Canadian guests we received full VIP treatment and were introduced,
applauded and thanked to a point we couldn’t even fully comprehend.
Gratefulness; adjective: warmly or deeply appreciate kindness or benefits received, thankful.
We have never been shown such admiration before and in
our minds we only contributed in such a small way by means of fundraising back
home. However, with the money raised we were able to provide 11 new goats (plus
31 returning goats) and 8 donkeys.
No... not a petting zoo... a means of
currency, nutrition, and labourers for carrying water and
harvesting fields.
It was amazing to the extent of which an event like this
makes a difference. Kids stayed home from school, women danced and screamed and
sang, there was even NATIONAL broadcasting for this very successful project.
Support; verb: bear all of or part of the weight.
“Where are all the men?!” one speaker joked when talking about the need to support the women in order to make power moves
for the community and it was true. The goals of the future are to get men more
involved, but the support is present and increasing each year. We were in
complete awe of everything we witnessed this day❤. The work put in and the bond
built through Project GROW will propel this district forward and, if anything
we learned here in Ghana, we hope we can take this example home and integrate
it into our daily lives locally.
#Feminism; noun: the advocacy of Women’s rights on the
ground of equality of the sexes.
By Victoria Jeffery and Sarah Langlois
4th Year BSN Students
UBC Okanagan
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