Women make up roughly half of the world, and almost half of all women live a daily existence fluctuating between significant limitation and profound misery. Women are the most under-utilized natural resource on the planet. Uneducated, under-valued and with no access to life, women (and their children) are at the greatest risk of being poor.
Since the beginning of time, man has ruled the world. Women, to be sure, have carried their fair share of the load, some would argue more than her fair share (with child birth alone!). But it has not been until the last few hundred years that women began to really be empowered to a level that they could impact any real change in the world. Prior to that it was Plato, Newton, Galileo, Edison, Einstein, these are the names we think of in terms of shaping the world we know today.
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Think of all that we have accomplished as a society in the fields of: science, education, medicine, literature, art, communications. All of these things (largely and until recently) have been invented, created and established by men. To me, this means all that we have done as a world, since the beginning of time is little more than half of our full potential!
If we were to have empowered women from day one, we could have doubled our accomplishments. We are only half as advanced as we could have been. Interesting thought. Maybe this is why we don’t have a cure for cancer yet (or the common cold for that matter).
American women, we have been raised to care, we have been taught to love and we are a society of women who will (thankfully) never know what it is like to fight for our right to vote, to fight for our right to live, to fight for our right to be equal. We live under a glorious umbrella of protection that has been provided to us by women (like us – not so long ago) who wanted a better life for themselves and their daughters, future grand children (us). They wanted to help us, and they never even knew us.
There are women today, right now, who are still in their fight. They suffer silently, alone without basic (oh so basic) things that they need to live. What if the cure for cancer is buried deep in the mind of a woman in rural Africa, who, if given the tools to live can pull herself up out of poverty and go to medical school? I want to support this woman, at least the possibility of her.
Posh Abilities is a non-profit organization that inspires women locally to empower women globally, offering unique and convenient ways to join the movement toward the empowerment of girls and women from next door to around the world. Posh Abilities is a non-profit extension of Posh Able Events a corporate and social event planning firm based in Orlando, Florida. We are a 100% volunteer organization and we do not collect monetary donations.
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