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Cycle 2 of Evaluation Set to Go
Like everyone else, we want to know whether our work is making a measurable difference in the lives of girls, families and communities in San Pedro Sacatepéquez. We also want to learn how we can do a better job of what we're doing.
In January of this year we launched a systematic evaluation program to gather much-needed data to substantiate (or not) our working hypotheses, measure impacts, and help us improve our programs. The evaluation design and instruments, overseen by WWT Board member and volunteer Dr. RoseMarie Perez-Foster, Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado in Boulder, were developed in collaboration with our ADIMTU partners. The program is built around a pre/post test, control group design and includes collecting demographic data on both the girls and, to some extent, their families.
Combining the schools where Leadership Institute programs are offered and the control schools in which we do not offer these interventions, the evaluation team is collecting data on the better part of 1000 adolescent girls.
RoseMarie trained ADIMTU staff to collect the first cycle of data at the beginning of the school year (January-October in Guatemala). She's mentored Advin Orozco Fuentes, an ADIMTU intern studying at the nearby national university and now-paid staffer, to manage the data collection, coding and entry. He recently traveled to Guatemala City for training by our consulting statistician, Dr. Meredith Fort. We're so pleased about how Advin has grown into this job and has become an important member of the onsite evaluation team, a terrific unintended consequence of our work in San Pedro.
Right now the team is crunching cycle 1 data while preparing to administer cycle 2 of the assessment during October. We're looking forward to sharing improved descriptive stats on the girls with you before the end of the year, followed by a more detailed report on program impacts and outcomes, ideally by February/March 2015.
ADIMTU Staff Attends II Foro Internacional
ADIMTU was honored to be invited and receive the funding necessary to participate in the Second International Forum sponsored by the Kenoli Foundation of Vancouver, B.C. and held in Honduras in September. The purpose of the Forum was to foster the exchange of knowledge, experience and outcomes among the 30 organizations from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua that receive funding from Kenoli. Of the 7 Guatemalan organizations attending, ADIMTU was the only one not yet funded by Kenoli, and was pleased to be introduced as a future partner.
Alejandra Ramos de León, an ADIMTU change agent who has been part of the Girls Leadership Program since its inception, ably represented ADIMTU there. Describing ADIMTU's mission and programs, Alejandra both presented to the whole group and participated in small-group workshops. She also staffed a table where she had many good one-on-one conversations.
Alejandra reports that people's response to ADIMTU's work was very positive, especially among those representing other projects that address Childhood and Youth in Central America. She learned the ins and outs of preparing a successful proposal to Kenoli and what financial and program reporting and evaluation are required. She was especially pleased to report that, thanks to the hard work of their Board, ADIMTU is well-prepared to meet all such requirements for transparency and accountability.
You can count on it. Your generous donations are changing lives. Just ask our girls, their mothers and others in San Pedro Sacatepéquez. They all agree: Educated Girls Change the Future.
As I was leaving Guatemala last February after spending over a month there, I was approached by a man who wanted to share his observations of ADIMTU's work in the villages of San Pedro Sacatepéquez and especially what he thought about the impact it was having on the adolescent girls in the communities where they work. His opinion was of great interest to me, as he was from that region, had extensive experience working in community development, and had followed ADIMTU's work over the last several years as it evolved and deepened.
What he said was profound. He had observed significant differences in the attitude and behaviors of girls in communities where ADIMTU is working compared to those of girls in neighboring communities where there is no ADIMTU presence. In communities where ADIMTU was not working, the incidence of early pregnancy among teenage girls was disturbingly high, he said. Girls commonly began bearing children at puberty, lured by the entreaties of local boys to become novios (sweethearts) and live happily ever after. As a result, 15–16 year old girls would often be trailed by several offspring and the course of a life of deprivation and poverty for them and their children would be set. In addition, the incidents of human trafficking were mounting, he reported, as when a shining pick up truck rolls into town and its driver promises a future in which a girl's dreams would come true. Too often, the girl would climb aboard, never to be seen again.
In contrast, he'd observed that the girls who participated in ADIMTU's programs had a much stronger sense of self. They knew they could stand on their own and that they had the internal capacity to set their own goals and make positive decisions in their lives that would help them achieve those goals. They knew that others valued them. They wanted to live lives in which they could make a significant contribution to their family, their community, and possibly their country. They were not lured by promises of others – neither prospective novios nor traffickers, to whom they would say, "I don't need to leave, I have a place right here." And, he noted, their peers, also program participants, agreed with one another, unknowingly but effectively shifting community norms along with their personal changes.
These differences are profound, and yet, when one examines the experiences and learning the girls acquire over the 3 years of their work with ADIMTU, one can see the reasons why:
In Grade 7 (La Vida de Mi Mamá) they learn first-hand about the hardships their mothers faced, and resolve to continue their education so as to be better prepared to lead a better life, with more opportunity.
In Grade 8 (La Lectura Familiar) they learn to really read, with access to wonderful books that explore lives and worlds outside of their own and that are selected by ADIMTU staff to include examples of inquiry, exploration, goal settling, persistence and success. As they share these books with their families, the girls bring new ideas and experiences into the family discourse, simultaneously opening the thinking and expectations of the whole community, family reading time by family reading time, household by household.
Finally, in Grade 9 (Mi Hermanita) they each take responsibility for a little sister, guiding her to success in school through weekly tutoring sessions while also demonstrating to themselves, their families and community members that they indeed have the power to create permanent change in themselves and in the people around them.
The girls who develop this sense of their own capacities want to grow and achieve their own dreams and they know they have the internal resources to do so. Of course, we can not claim this is true for all girls in ADIMTU programs, as the factors influencing their lives are many, but to hear a local man's observations of such a general trend is very heartening.
The reports of the overwhelming numbers of young children and teens being detained at our borders as they flee their homes and try to enter the US to find a better life are startling and deeply troubling. These young people must be so very desperate to take on such danger and uncertainty. Surely, it must be because they feel they have no future where they are.
While relatively modest, as ADIMTU's programs evolve they may well become a significant intervention to these overarching trends. We are conducting a 3-year longitudinal evaluation both to learn if this is so and to help ADIMTU improve programs in the field. We believe this to be true, and it has given strength to our ongoing resolve to help them continue this work.
As ever, each and every financial contribution gives the ADIMTU staff the resources they need to go out each day, armed with books and art supplies and activities which help turn these girls' faces toward a brighter future. We hope you will find it in your hearts to make a contribution to support their work.
Thank you.
Evaluation Program Underway - Programs Set for Expansion
Our top-notch program and evaluation team of Wendy Baring-Gould and RoseMarie Perez Foster spent several weeks in San Pedro Sacatepéquez during January & February working intensively with the ADIMTU team to prepare for the new school year. During their first week in San Pedro they worked with ADIMTU to refine and pilot our expanded evaluation plan, digging into every detail from student profile categories to data collection plans and protocols. The subsequent week was devoted to curriculum planning, teacher training and implementation preparation.
Utilizing a controlled pre-post experimental design, RoseMarie, a psycho-educational researcher at the Institute for Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, has constructed a longitudinal outcomes study to assess the efficacy of our program. Standardized testing instruments will be used to assess the girls' literacy skills and psycho-developmental strides. The statistically analyzed impact of ADIMTU's program will be compared with matched schools in San Marcos that do not receive the intervention. Preliminary results are expected at the beginning of 2015. Significantly, as the National Ministry of Education has learned more about the breadth and depth of ADIMTU's Leadership Institute programs, they've expressed their willingness to and interest in cooperating with WWT and ADIMTU to accomplish this evaluation.
Under RoseMarie's leadership and her continuing skype consultations, ADIMTU has begun the process of data collection in the thirteen schools where we are providing all of the Leadership Institute programs, aka "the intervention." ADIMTU's data manager will soon be collecting data at the 6 control schools as well.
On the program front, Wendy worked with the ADIMTU team to develop a detailed curriculum guide that specifies week-by-week activities for the 3 core programs, La Vida de Mi Mama (My Mother's Life), La Lectura Familiar (Family Reading Time), and Mi Hermanita (My Little Sister). Each change agent, supported by a university intern, will annotate and critique the curricula as she implements them, with regular group reviews to improve content and delivery. Between field visits, Wendy also supports the ADIMTU team from Boulder via email and skype calls.
On the very practical side, the group revisited their materials needs in light of program expansion, including the need for many more books, art materials and the like. Also in light of growth, they reviewed the practical logistics and related cost increases, such as transportation to the more distant schools and increased computer and cell phone support, and determined that their 2014 operating budget is $80,000.
During this field visit, the team also met with teachers from our 13 schools to prepare for the programs' incorporation into the school day. The group reviewed the updated curricula and enthusiastically validated its synergy with Guatemala's national curriculum. They also discussed the evaluation design and offered recommendations, always taken into account as these educators are very important allies on the ground.
And so the work continues. All indications are that 2014 will be a banner year for Leadership Institute programs. Our colleagues at ADIMTU are now reaching nearly 1100 middle school girls, their families and teachers, plus 300 or so 2nd and 3rd grade Little Sisters along with their families and teachers. The multipliers and ripple effects are terrific @ "just" $80,000 annually, which breaks down to a cost of few dollars per beneficiary with a rather high social rate of return on investment.
Your support for Women Work Together aligns you with ADIMTU's genuine grassroots effort to shift community norms so that girls regularly attend and achieve in school and become community leaders in San Pedro Sacatepéquez, San Marcos, and across Guatemala. ¡Muchas gracias!
Guatemalan Ministry of Education Makes It Official
ADIMTU, Women Work Together's sister organization in San Pedro Sacatepéquez, has been awarded national accreditation from the Guatemalan Ministry of Education for the comprehensive Leadership Institute. They are one of only twelve organizations certified to deliver educational programming in the schools during the school day. This followed a year-long program review that included field visits, written applications and in-depth workshops.
The program's certification carries significant weight and prestige and will be an important asset in our efforts to attract more sustainable and in-country funding. It also places ADIMTU staff in the company of other similarly innovative organizations, to learn from them, build local capacity and bring more direct benefit to all parties.
Collaborations Count
Girls' premature romances and ensuing pregnancies are frequently cited as a reason why girls leave school. Fathers in particular have been very forthright in asking for ADIMTU's help in addressing this problem. While eager to respond, the staff is not trained in this very specialized field. Through the Education Ministry's accreditation process, ADIMTU connected with the Fundación Juan Bautista Guitiérrez, a long-established and highly-regarded Guatemalan foundation dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable communities, including programs for teens on reproductive health. FJBG agreed to partner with ADIMTU and spent most of November working with students in 10 of ADIMTU's middle school sites during the school vacation.
Girls Leadership Institute Reorganizes to Maximize Impact
All of our programs for girls and their mothers, fathers, teachers, and community leaders are now under the umbrella of a newly configured Leadership Institute. This brings together our girl-centered, 10-month in-school programs with the workshops, community conversations and trainings for adults. ADIMTU will work in each rural community more frequently, carrying the message that Educated Girls Can Change the Future. Look for an expanded description of the Leadership Institute on our updated website, www.womenworktogether.org.
Will You Stick With Us?
We believe we're establishing a sufficient track record to qualify for larger scale grants. During 2014 and 2015 we will be working to secure more sustainable funding for ADIMTU, perhaps as a demonstration site for other Guatemalan communities and schools.
However, this will take time, during which we will still need to raise $120,000 annually to support the ongoing work which will impact over 800+ girls and their families in San Pedro.
This breaks down to just $150 per-girl-per-year, and barely $75 per person once you factor in affected mothers, fathers, teachers, and community leaders.
And so we ask you to please stick with us and continue or even increase your support so we and all these wonderful girls don't lose all our hard-won gains.
Your investments so far have already paid off. These young teen girls have a greater sense of themselves than ever before. They love to read. They look you in the eye. They express their own ideas with confidence. And they speak up in public as never before. The girls are seeing themselves as important people...contributors to their families, active members of their communities, and valued participants in society.
From the outset, teachers and school administrators across San Pedro have been important local partners, helping to open the doors of schools and classrooms to our programs for middle school girls.
With the conclusion of the 2013 school year coming up (Guatemalan schools are in session January-October), we're about to celebrate the girls who've participated in our three core programs--My Mother's Life Story, Family Reading Time, and Big & Little Sisters. Each of these programs was offered this year in five different rural middle schools across San Pedro.
Concluding programs held in each local school community will highlight the girls' accomplishments for their families and communities. And, nearly 200 girls who are about to graduate from San Pedro's 13 rural middle schools will gather in central San Pedro where they will be publically honored for their academic achievement. On this same day we'll be hosting a school fair for them that features secondary school options, financial aid information and motivational workshops with local professional women.
Do these programs (funded by supporters like you!) make a difference in the girls' view of themselves, their lives, their place in the community, their commitment to staying in school?
Just listen to what these girls say about what they've learned:
1. About gender and education.
In the middle school where I study, there aren't many girls because parents say that girls get married and have a family and leave their studies behind. Only the boys are sent to study because some people think they are more capable. I learned that I must fight (for myself) to move forward in life, to be someone, a young woman graduate. - Carmela Miranda Velásquez, 14 years old.
2. From hearing and writing her mother's life story.
"When my mother saw other girls her age going to school, she wanted to study, too, and dreamed of bettering herself. But she couldn't because her parents didn't have enough money for her to study. Now I go to school, even though it is hard for my parents to afford to send me. I'm lucky that my parents want the best for me and they want me to become someone in life." –Yessenia Magaly Clemente Orozco, 12 years old
2. From reading, both on her own and with her family.
"I learned that through reading I can acquire new knowledge. Reading more helps me understand things. I can analyze and understand the concepts behind the information I get in school. And I learned that I can be a leader in my home because I can teach my siblings that reading and learning come from valuing books. In school I have learned to better my character and to go to the front of the room to speak or to read aloud. I also encourage everyone else and tell him or her that reading is important for everyone. It is healthy and it can help us to know how to live on this planet. – Melisenda Dubelis Ruiz Miranda, 13 years old
3. From one big sister.
"I learned that by teaching my little sister, I could also learn from her about how to develop my own character as a person. If one day I am in front of a group in public, my character will be more developed and I could speak with everyone there." – Sandy Fuentes, 14 years old
With your financial support Women Work Together is poised to expand our reach and bring these 3 programs to all 13 rural middle schools across San Pedro, plus support them with local staff development, teacher training, and outreach to mothers, fathers and others.
Help nearly 1,000 girls, their teachers and families work together to Keep Guatemalan Girls in School.
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Starbucks' Tazo takes first sip as tea store
Two days after saying it will buy the chain Teavana, Starbucks opens first — and possibly only —Tazo tea store in University Village
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Two days after announcing its $620 million acquisition of the retail tea chain Teavana, Starbucks opened what was expected to be the first of many stores centered on its tea brand, Tazo.
But the Tazo opening Friday in University Village might end up being the brand's only retail location. Executives said they are not sure whether there will be more, but they do plan to expand Teavana's mall-based network and add non-mall locations.
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What sort of switches do you use?
Morning Guys,
We have a strange issue here potentially with our inter-vlan routing. Basically when trying to connect to something on another v-lan the first time it will come back as not being able to find it but subsequent times it will connect fine.
The annoying thing is it doesn't seem to do it all the time.
Any ideas?
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What sort of switches do you use?
HP5120 and HP5800
Not sure on HP sorry. Cisco is that I deal with.
Hi Sam,
Did you get to the bottom of this ?
If it helps, it sounds like you are having some issues with ARP. Its not uncommon to loose a ping or two when trying to talk to a box for the first time on a LAN, this is just the ARP protocol doing its stuff, but the loss of one or two pings (we are talking about 10's of miliseconds) shouldn't cause a box to fail to respond consistently as you describe.
Try pinging a misbehaving box and note any packet loss and RTT times, on a LAN you should be seeing RTT's of less than 1ms and you should have no packet loss save from possibly one or two the first time you ping it if it has seen no traffic for a few hours.
check the layer 3 interfaces for the relevant vlans on your switch and make sure proxy-arp and ip-redirects are turned off, this is particularly important where there is more than one router connected to a subnet, say where you have a split core architecture. These features can cause delays in ARP replies and cause the type of issues you are seeing. Before you do that though, make sure all your servers/pc's etc are configured with the correct subnet masks and gateways as the proxy-arp feature hides issues that would otherwise be caused by devices with no default gateway configured.
There are other things which could be causing it but this is a good place to start.
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- Millcreek Village Apartments 6819 Lockwood Blvd Boardman, OH 44512 Phone Number: (330) 238-2598
- Peppertree Apartments 2122 Robbins Ave Niles, OH 44446 Phone Number: (330) 752-7869
- Chelsea Court Apartments 6300 South Ave Youngstown, OH 44512 Phone Number: (330) 758-4695
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- 3 Bedroom Home 2 blocks from YSU 1111 Bryson St Youngstown, OH 44504 Phone Number: (877) 418-8546
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Alfred Wetzler, a Slovak Jew, was one of the tiny number of people to escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau, Europe's heart of darkness during the Second World War, where an estimated 1.1 million Jews arrived of whom scarcely 7,000 survived the onslaught of the Nazis.
Wetzler and his companion Rudolf Vrba, also a Slovak Jew, were arrested by the Nazis in 1942 in Slovakia and sent to the death camp for slave labour. Wetzler was 24 and Vrba was just 18. Wetzler spent two years in the camp, witnessing some of the worst atrocities known to man. It was this experience that founded the basis for the memoirs he would later write: "It is incredible how tough human life can be, how quickly a person, even with a broken arm, a dislocated foot, a broken head and bitten by dogs, will do what is asked of him when over him hangs the cudgel waved by the goodwill of the Reich."
It was in the spring of 1944, with the assistance of other prisoners, that the pair managed to escape, initially by hiding under a huge woodpile for four days in the corner of the camp until the search for them was called off. The duo then escaped through a hole under a fence at nightfall. But it was what they did afterwards that was truly heroic. The two men had also smuggled out damning evidence - a ground plan of the camp, construction details of the gas chambers, crematoriums and, most convincingly, a label from a canister of Zyklon gas...
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"With a depressed economy and fears of the 'fiscal cliff' looming, shoppers went online with a vengeance this year looking for bargains and many fell prey to cybercriminals who racked up over $2 billion in fraudulent sales in counterfeit and fake goods," said James Lee, executive director of the Consumer Fraud Center. "We saw the heaviest counterfeiting in clothing, accessories, drugs, toys, electronics, personal care and beauty items and CDs, DVDs and video games."
Lee cited data from comScore which saw 16 percent growth in online shopping from last year with almost $40 billion in goods bought online by consumers this holiday season. He also noted the Consumer Fraud Center and other anti-piracy organizations, such as the International Anticounterfeiting Coalition, have tracked the steady growth in the global trade in counterfeit and fake goods as a percentage of total global trade from 1.85 percent in 2000 to almost 5 percent last year; amounting to $600 billion in counterfeit goods.
"It's staggering to see how quickly cybercriminals have adapted to online sales, especially exploiting weaknesses in the international supply chain such as using Amazon Marketplace's direct shipping initiative and Amazon Pages to build illegitimate stores on legitimate websites," Lee said. "We estimate the growth in counterfeit sales will double each year unless stopped either by retailers such as Amazon acting voluntarily to halt these sales or through federal and state governments enacting more rigorous consumer protections."
The Consumer Fraud Center detailed some statistics from this season's holiday shopping:
- The National Retail Federation (NRF) estimates total holiday sales to rise to $586 billion, even though it represents the smallest increase in sales since 2009, the growth in online sales surged and continues to grow;
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Little Girls are Precious too! Not if they're Fat…
Calling all little girls to come out and play, Spring is Coming! That's what I would want to put on next month's outreach flyer. Instead, I sigh because I know that it will not get young women to come into any program in the South Bronx. So, the new flyer reads "Are you a young woman that is feeling embarrassed, not loved, or safe? Do you have issues of self esteem, don't think you're beautiful and have questions about relationships?
Honoring the earth traditions of our Indigenous ancestors, every spring, young and adult women get to give birth to themselves all over again. Women of all ages gather at the monthly healing circle to let go of trauma from child sexual abuse, abandonment, abortions in their youth, regrets, and self blame from a child hood they had no control over. Together, they create sisterhood and reclaim self love & inner beauty lost to broken hearts during infancy.
Trauma in early childhood has such a profound impact on young women that it follows her well into adulthood without her knowing. With no safe spaces for healing and education in life skills young women become drug addicts, self mutilate, have unsafe sex, are in unhealthy relationships and turn to food for emotional support. A once loving and happy little girl is now fighting to save her life.
Most recently, the movie "Precious" screened nationwide to tell the story of a young black women Clairece "Precious" Jones, a 16 year old, obese illiterate black girl in Harlem. At 350 pounds, Precious has become the face for the obesity issue amongst young women in inner city communities. Having worked with young women in the South Bronx for over 13 years, I was excited to see obesity contextualized within the social and economic conditions of their lives.
In March, an article by the New York Times, The Obesity-Hunger Paradox, states that the Bronx, the unhealthiest of 62 counties in the U.S.A has the highest rate of obesity. According to the Food Research and Action Center, an anti-hunger group, nearly 37% of residents said they lacked money to buy food at some point in the past 12 months. Furthermore, on their way to school children buy cheap foods high in saturated fat, food coloring, & sugar also available to them in their school cafeteria vending machines.
Moreover, research shows that obesity is the new way that hunger is showing up in our communities, being poor and hungry, doesn't mean that you look anorexic or bulimic. What happens to your body when it is not sure if it will be fed again? It goes into starvation mode and stores it as fat, hence obesity.
With a Masters Degree in Public Health from Columbia University, I know that obesity is not just an "individual" problem related to lack of food; instead, it is an institutional, public health and human rights issue exacerbated by poverty. Additionally, obesity goes deeper than a young women's physical look, it also affects her self esteem whose breakdown manifests into fear, powerlessness and leads to unhealthy choices and behaviors. Consequently, creating communities filled with HIV/AIDS, mental health issues, hormone imbalances, menstruation problems, sexual assault and women dying of fibroids, thyroid issues, breast/ovarian cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes & asthma too young for their age.
I name this article "Little Girls are Precious Too" because I have struggled with my weight all my life. I also currently live in between two Precious women, my daughter and my wife, all of us weighing over 200 pounds each. It is from this personal place that I write this article. With my own eyes I have seen the role culture plays in our relationship to food; where eating becomes a way women finds or gives love and how obese young women become sexualized resulting in violence against women. I also see how our past continues to dictate our self worth, what we think we deserve and how we treat ourselves.
I invite all women reading this article to give your little girl voice this spring. Precious lives in all of us, we are all precious little girls…
This article is part of a writing assignment for Voices of Our Future, which is providing rigorous web 2.0 and new media training for 31 emerging women leaders. We are speaking out for social change from some of the most unheard from corners of the world.
Dear Dayanara
Hello again!
Thank you so much for sharing your writing here. As I said in our previous exchange, I had tears in my eyes when I finished reading your piece. To me, that speaks to how you have connected with your reader on a level that matters greatly. The heart....where we all can relate to one another.
I will continue to follow you and I look forward to our next contact!
In Admiration and Appreciation,
Insightful and compassionate
Dear Dayanara,
Your compassion and your deep personal connection to women who suffer from obesity in your community are searing and compelling. I like how you combined statistics about obesity with your own observations about how obesity affects the soul. Your respect for the little girl within all women, and your passionate hope to nurture self-esteem in the hearts of obese women, is touching and powerful.
Thank you,
A very insightful piece for
A very insightful piece for me ;- ) a lot women and men in my country are obese. And not much has been to address the issue apart from few seminars and conference. And the bizarre thing is, the obese population does not believe they are obese! They reject all notions that the health issues some of them are facing are related to obesity. It's ticking time bomb here. But we all know it's definitely not an individual issue. In my country, it's more about food choices women make. It's not about cheapness, both healthy and unhealthy food falls into the same price range, however, there are more outlets where you can get unhealthy food.
I really love this line! I wish policy maker in my country would explore the issue from this perspective " I know that obesity is not just an "individual" problem related to lack of food; instead, it is an institutional, public health and human rights issue exacerbated by poverty."
Little Girls are precious
Hello, Dayanara,
I was so very touched by your journal article. I cried, and even now I would like to just let it all out. Your story about how little girls who are obese turn to unhealthy avenues are so true, and I know this from personal experience. Right now I am in a personal place of watching my granddaughter who is 10 struggle with self esteem. Thankfully her parents-although divorced-are getting her some help. The statistics are sobering. Thank heaven you are on the planet!
Pat F.