The theme of this session is "Resilience, Relationships, Rebirth, and Reimagine." Click here for more information on guest speakers and topics.
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Chicken & Egg's very own co-founder Wendy Ettinger is attending at the New York City Paley Center and has sent back a few of her own notes from the discussions to consider:
• Engagement does make a difference! Everyone wants to help the individual and not the group or the issue. How do you get people to care about more people, but see the WHOLE issue?--Trigger response that goes beyong individual! (Make your issue relate-able through the lens of a character-driven story)
• Education goes beyond the immediate and equips people to have better interaction with the world.--Example: Educating the girls in the brothel also educates the reader. More illiterate girls are recruited into vulnerable situations than those with basic reading skills.
• NGOs are focusing on women-- The awareness is shifting. It is now the time for education and investment.
• Women cannot be half the population and a special interest group. Women can make a difference to the global economy. We just need think bigger!
• We must invest in women because in many cases that is all that is left.--Women make up 70% of the population in post-conflict Rwanda. We need to move beyond and invest more and in bigger numbers (this sense of investment is not limited to a monetary number).
Wow! Sounds like some amazing stuff!
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