Working for Tearfund has certainly been opening my eyes to the state of the world in which we live. It is such a privilege to work for a charity who’s vision it is to see these thing made right no matter how big the task seems.
Today is the start of the 16 days of activism to end violence against women. It runs from 25th Nov until Human Rights day on the 10th Dec.
In the UK 1 in 4 women will suffer domestic violence in her lifetime and 2 women a week still die due to domestic violence. Its 1 in 3 women globally. The UN state that Globally, women between the age of 15-44 are more likely to be maimed or die as a result of male violence than through cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or war combined (UN 2007)
- Domestic violence is the largest form of abuse of women worldwide, irrespective of region, culture, ethnicity, education, class and religion.
- It is estimated that more than two million girls are genitally mutilated per year, a rate of one girl every fifteen seconds.
- The number of women forced or sold into prostitution is estimated worldwide at anywhere between 700,000 and 4,000,000 per year.
- Did you know over two women per week are killed by current or ex-partners, and that one in four women in the UK will experience domestic violence in their lifetime?
Restored is a global Christian alliance to transform relationships and end violence against women. We believe that Christian churches have huge potential to help prevent violence, but also need to change their own attitudes and practice. Our specific focus will be the prevention of domestic violence and sexual violence against women and girls. This will include a Christian men’s initiative on preventing violence against women, which will come under the main alliance. Restored’s priority in its first year will be to develop a pack to help churches address violence against women in their communities.
Tearfund’s press release on the launch of the church pack can be found here http://www.tearfund.org/News/Press+releases/Domestic+abuse.htm
And on a loosley related thread: watch this – Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace:
These two videos are the most recent video pieces I’ve done for work. They are promo pieces for Tearfund’s “Transform Yourselves” trips. These trips allow you to tailor an overseas group trip to your needs. One of the unique points is that itr enables people to take under 18’s which a lot of organisations prefer to steer clear of due to the extra complications.
I especially like that these trips are not just about a bunch Europeans going put to “help” poor people in a “hit and run” way. Every trip is with a well established partner so we know that the projects are sustainable and that the idea od the project will be to empower whatever village is being visited to help themselves.
The more i hear about these trips the more i want to go on one.
So I bought some new gloves yesterday and this eve before leaving work I discovered this tag….um…
So these are the soles of my oldest pair of trainers. They are fourteen years old. They are kickers (you can see the red and green lines). They are awesome. They’ve become my cycling shoes now as they have holes in and look beyond shabby however! They don’t smell. They never have. They’ve been incredible really. They never smelt bad, were cheap(on offer for £25), have always been super comfy and have not fallen apart for 14 years. Possible the best pair of trainers ever.
It was an incredibly beautiful morning this morning. As I was driving down past Twickenham i glanced over at the river and i saw how beautiful it was. The sun was just barley breaking through the clouds and there was a think mist over the river.
I parked up and jumped out with my GF1 and my Gorillapod and shot this.
Loving my camera.