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unusual facts about self-empowerment



Aisha Association for Woman and Child Protection

AISHA Association for Women and Child Protection (AISHA), established in 2009, is an independent Palestinian women organization working to achieve gender integration through economic empowerment and psychosocial support to marginalized groups in the Gaza Strip with focus on Gaza City and the North area.

Akbayan Youth

Democracy (the right of every young Filipino to meaningful participation in political processes; pluralism, equality, and empowerment of the marginalized)

Brenthurst

The Brenthurst Initiative, a proposal regarding black economic empowerment;

Candida Royalle

She recently made her mission of women's sexual empowerment multi-cultural by executive producing the independent film Afrodite Superstar, directed by African American director Venus Hottentot, a breakthrough film nominated for seven AVN Awards in 2007.

Deak Evgenikos

She is best known for her role in Jamie Babbit's film Itty Bitty Titty Committee, a girl-powered romantic comedy that explores themes such as lesbianism and female empowerment.

Diane Stein

Beverly Engel, 2000, Women Circling the Earth: A Guide to Fostering Community, Healing, and Empowerment, Health Communications, ISBN 1-55874-755-9

She considers healing such an important element of goddess spirituality that she specifies that all rituals must contain elements of healing (Beverly Engel, 2000, Women Circling the Earth: A Guide to Fostering Community, Healing, and Empowerment, page 70).

Digital literacy

Community Informatics overlaps to a considerable degree with digital literacy by being concerned with ensuring the opportunity not only for ICT access at the community level but also, according to Michael Gurstein, that the means for the "effective use" of ICTs for community betterment and empowerment are available.

Drummore

However, in July 2008 the Dumfries and Galloway Council decided to seek an Empowerment Order under the Harbours Act 1964 which would enable the Council to take over the harbour land and operations, following the pattern of a number of successful harbours along the Solway coast.

Economic abuse

The Survivors’ Empowerment and Economic Security Act was introduced by the 110th United States Congress to the Senate (S. 1136) and House of Representatives (H.R. 2395) to allow for greater economic freedom for domestic violence victims by providing short-term emergency benefits where needed, guaranteeing employment leave and unemployment compensation, and prohibit insurance restriction or job discrimination to domestic violence victims.

Empowerment Plan

The Empowerment Plan was established as a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation in 2011, by Veronika Scott, who was a student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

Families and Children for Empowerment and Development

It facilitates leadership development, empowerment, organizational development and social services among street children, urban poor children and their families in identified urban poor areas of Districts V and VI (Paco and Pandacan) Manila.

Harriette Cole

Cole has provided presentation and empowerment workshops for businesses and institutions, including Speaking of Women's Health, Kraft, the Saralee Corporation, Cornell University, the National Urban League, National Action Network, Jack & Jill of America, Delta Sigma Theta and more.

Hilde Frafjord Johnson

She was member of the High Level Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor led by Madeleine Albright, and has served as a member of the Oxford University Taskforce on UK Energy, Development Assistance and Foreign Policy, led by Sir Chris Patten.

Hispanic Council On Social Policy Center For Community Development Corp.

The agency was founded by longtime advocate of parent self-empowerment Jesus R. Castro along with a group of community members that felt a need for more Hispanic representation in policy decision making at the local level.

Holly Carter

More recently, she produced the Empowerment Summit Sessions for the National Urban League in its annual 2011 event.

Human Be-In

The Human Be-In focused the key ideas of the 1960s counterculture: personal empowerment, cultural and political decentralization, communal living, ecological awareness, higher consciousness (with the aid of psychedelic drugs), acceptance of illicit drug use, and radical liberal political consciousness.

Institute of Rural Management, Pakistan

This include providing institutional building services to organizations including Khushali Bank, World Bank and Asian Development Bank, International Labor Organization, Punjab Rural Support Programme, Ghazi Barotha Taraqiati Idara, Sindh Rural Support Organization, DTCE – Devolution Trust for Community Empowerment, Human Resource Development Network, United Nations Development Programme, South Asia Poverty Alleviation Programme and National Bank of Pakistan.

Joanna Macy

Her work, originally called "Despair and Empowerment Work" was acknowledged as being part of the deep ecology tradition after she encountered the work of Arne Naess and John Seed, but as a result of disillusion with academic disputes in the field, she now calls it "the Work that Reconnects".

Judith Amaechi

Dame Judith Amaechi is the wife of Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, Nigeria and head of the Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI) which campaigns against HIV/AIDS, advocates the rights of the women and children, and promotes gender equity and Girl-Child education.

Kate Waller Barrett

Educator and social worker Janie Porter Barrett (1865–1948), although unrelated to Katherine Harwood Waller Barrett, advocated many of the same voting rights and women's empowerment causes within black communities in Atlanta and Virginia, within Katherine Barrett's lifetime and afterward.

Lilatai Pradkar

Lilatai Pradkar (born February 1925 in Madhya Pradesh, India) is an Indian social reformer who is fighting for education of tribal women and empowerment.

Marc Kielburger

He is the co-founder, with his brother Craig Kielburger, of Free the Children, an international development and youth empowerment organization, and the co-founder and co-CEO of Me to We, its partner social enterprise.

Murray Turoff

Turoff was awarded the EFF Pioneer Award in 1994 for "significant and influential contributions to computer-based communications and to the empowerment of individuals in using computers."

Nii Tackie Tawiah III

Holding a BA degree in Political Science Pace University, New York and an MA in Economics (New School for Social Research, New York), he was well disposed to lead the rediscovery effort of the political clout of the Ga State and the economic empowerment of his subjects.

Pestalozzi International Village

The village also sponsors different programs overseas such as educational empowerment of Tibetans living in India.

Radhanath Sikdar

In 1854, he along with his Derozian friend Peary Chand Mitra started the Bengali journal Masik Patrika, for the education and empowerment of women.

Walkathon

Most commonly, Walkathons focus on fighting or curing pervasive diseases or ailments such as AIDS, Cancer, Diabetes, Lupus, and Arthritis, and participation is also often promoted as a symbol of empowerment, remembrance, or awareness of sufferers and their relations.

Willow Grove Park Mall

The mosaics were created by the Abington Art Center's Youth Empowerment Program and the Abington Township Balanced and Restorative Justice Program from designs made by Carol Strinton-Broad

Youth empowerment

Youth empowerment is also a central tenet of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which every country in the world (minus the U.S. and Somalia) has signed into law.


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