[Viva] Fwd: Special Granny Bulletin: International Women's Day

Sun Mar 8 18:00:33 PDT 2020

Thanks so much Peggy!  Great message, big hugs all around. 💖

On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 2:00 PM pegfrank <pegfrank at telus.net> wrote:

> Hi dear women friends,
>
> I thought this message from the Stephen Lewis Foundation says a lot about
> what International WOmen’s Day means in Africa. If you are interested
> please take a few moments to view it. If it is not of interest to you,
> please just delete, but know that I am sending you a little love with this
> message so throw your arms around yourself and feel the LOVE! hugs too,-peg
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *The Stephen Lewis Foundation <campaign at stephenlewisfoundation.org>
> *Subject: **Special Granny Bulletin: International Women's Day*
> *Date: *March 8, 2020 at 6:59:47 AM PDT
> *To: *<pegfrank at telus.net>
> *Reply-To: *The Stephen Lewis Foundation <
> campaign at stephenlewisfoundation.org>
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> <https://mailchi.mp/stephenlewisfoundation/specialgrannybulletin-iwd2020?e=e9f4e0e065>
> Special Granny Bulletin
>
> Welcome to the Granny Bulletin, your source for news, stories and
> information about exciting initiatives from the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s
> Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign.
>
>
>
> *International Women's Day: Individual acts and collective impact*
>
> <https://grandmotherscampaign.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=86fd581ffa1e26e3305b53bf6&id=50fbfa4359&e=e9f4e0e065>
> Dear Grandmothers and Grand*others*,
>
> Today, around the globe, *International Women’s Day* is celebrated with
> the theme, Each for Equal! It’s based on the notion that each of us can
> play a part in creating a more gender-equal world, which as a member of our
> Grandmothers Campaign and Stephen Lewis Foundation community, you already
> do.
>
> Your *individual* acts of solidarity help support the *collective* impact
> of our community-based partners in sub-Saharan Africa. Year round, these
> acts of “solidarity, not charity” are part of the global response to HIV
> and AIDS, and they are in direct defiance of a pandemic driven by gender
> inequality.
>
> In a recent report by Funders Concerned About AIDS
> <https://grandmotherscampaign.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=86fd581ffa1e26e3305b53bf6&id=32f7ef2202&e=e9f4e0e065>, the
> Stephen Lewis Foundation is the only Canadian organization named as a Top
> 20 philanthropic funder for HIV and AIDS, in the world. Yet, last year,
> overall global funding for the response to HIV and AIDS declined by a
> billion dollars, and projections for 2021 are similar. These cuts have
> intolerable, unacceptable, life-threatening consequences. And this at a
> time when there's greatest global consensus about what it will take to turn
> the tide of HIV and AIDS: holistic, community-driven responses, rooted in
> gender equality and social justice, like those of our community-based
> partners. Communities are the experts on what they need, and what will
> defeat the pandemic.
>
> Thank you for your ongoing solidarity.
>
> With affection and admiration,
>
> Sarah, Megan, Ruth-Anne, and Winnie
> “In the past, if a woman wanted to speak at a village meeting, she would
> have to kneel. With home-based care education and MWEDO’s empowerment
> programmes, this expectation shifted. In the past, village assemblies were
> attended only by men, but now, women are included on the agenda and
> participate in meetings. Women are increasingly being invited and
> participating in forums as equals. This growing visibility and confidence,
> along with access to income through MWEDO’s income-generation groups, is
> encouraging women to take up other rights, such as owning land.” *–
> Maasai Women’s Development Organization, Tanzania*
>
>
>
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