Blog Number Nine

The non-governmental organization I chose was the Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace. This organization works on the issue of women's rights and is headed by women.
About Them:
Women's Learning Partnership's sole purpose is women's leadership and empowerment. WLP builds networks and works with 18 autonomous and independent organizations in the Global South, mainly working with Muslim societies, helping them transform their families, communities and societies. They believe that women working in the partnership will benefit greatly from the skills that they teach them. Their main goal is to increase the number of women taking on leadership and decision making roles in the family and community. They hope to improve the effectiveness of feminist movements in Muslim societies.

What do they do:
With their partners they create leadership training curriculum and empowerment programs for women in 18 countries. They build organizational capacity and to support the collective mobilization of women in the Global South for gender equality and social justice. They also build a culture of peace in order to protect women's rights. They also engage in campaigns and hold South to South and North to South dialogues on the challenges facing women in the Global South. The WLP also ensures that gender equality remains on the agenda of the policymakers and society leaders.

This organization is worth contributing to because they support women and help them become something in their societies. They also fight hard for keeping women equal in all aspects in life. This is why everyone should contribute to this organization.

This a gender issue because is involves empowering women and making them equal in every aspect in life.

Response to Readings:
In Enloes article. Enloe believed that globalization was a bad thing and that it is not helping the people that need jobs. Enloe also believes that the government is the cause of all this globalization. I also thought that they story you read in class about Princess Diana and how she showed globalization very well I thought that that was very interesting. I also liked in class how we did the activity with clothes and showed where we all got our items from. That really put in perspective that we are in a country that is very globalized. I had never really noticed where all my clothes were from until we did that activity. I do think that the governments of countries do need to get a handle on the working conditions that some people are working in. Some of these places are awful and need to be fixed very soon. They also need to look at the wages that these people are getting paid, its really not fair how much work people do then to get paid pretty much nothing. Also I do not believe that children should be allowed to work in these types on conditions. They should be kids while they can be.