The past few months have been difficult time for me - hence no blogging. I don't want to expound on what has been transpiring in my life, suffice to say, I have not been very happy with my life or myself - feelings way to personal to describe them on a screen. However, this blog is NOT about me tonight and in fact the opposite is true - I am SO counting my blessings and willing myself to feel grateful for the life I have been entrusted with. Why the change of heart and mind you may ask - well, I am HAPPY to share this with you tonite ....
Lounging around on the couch tonite - feeling a tad sorry for myself - I was flicking through TV channels trying to find something mindless to watch, I happened (fortuitously methinks) to stumble on a program titled
Girl Power (ABC's Foreign Correspondent). How foolish, self indulgent and weak I felt as I watched what women in Afghanistan are faced with on a daily basis and what atrocities they endure and have to deal with - only 13 percent of women in this war torn country know how to read and write!
Enter one beautiful young woman into the story, who in the face of incredible danger to herself, has stood up to be counted as a force to be reckoned with. The program follows a day in her life and shows the prejudices and physical attacks she endures as she simply walks down the street of Kabul. She takes the journalist into a hospital to meet a young 15 year old, who was brutally beaten and tortured by her husband, mother-in-law and sister-in-law every single day of her young life.
This young girl is in a bad way - her hair is sparse as it has been yanked out, she is missing one or two nails because these were pulled out because she refused to prostitute herself, her face is bruised and battered - her beautiful brown eyes are vacant, her voice almost non-existence. Her plight has moved even the Afghanistan Prime Minister who has ordered that the offender's be arrested. Sad to say - there are many many more of these incidents which occur in this country- none of which will ever hit the headlines, or have anyone to save them from their misery.
What can we do - here safe in our first world comfort and indulgence I hear you thinking? You can donate to the amazing work of
Young Women for Change . Check this site out and read how a few faithful, amazing young women who are fighting against injustices to women in a county who sees women on the same level as an animal.
You can also pray for protection and strength for these young women who are fighting bravely against all odds to change the way women are treated in Afghanistan.
Let's stand with these women in their fight and share the Young Women for Change site with colleagues, friends and family. If you belong to a prayer group - keep these young women up in prayer.
Also read my blog on - a sad, true story -
the stoning of an innocent woman.
-oOo- Love your strong {Life} everyday -oOo-
