Be That Woman Challenge

Beautiful video and post from Osocio.

"No high tech but just a few line drawings, with no words, just music. Produced by RP3 Agency on behalf of the Washington Area Women’s Foundation, this tale of one woman’s journey from a position of need to one of strength shows the power of investing in women and girls.

The video is meant for fundraising, goal is build a social media fueled movement at bethatwoman.org. The next phase will involve sharing personal stories of women who have made a difference in people’s lives."

Comments

[Kimberley Crofts]

Lovely stuff.

This reminds me of the talk that Lucy Neil gave during the storytelling session at the Bigger Picture. Did you see that?

Neil told the story of her great great aunt Mary Neil. Mary started the Espérance Club in the late nineteenth-century for poor girls from the dressmaking trade. At the club she taught traditional English dances such as Morris dancing which were popular at the time. The girls were then able to travel throughout England teaching these dances and thereby earn a new income.

Mary Neil saw dancing as an inclusive rather than exclusive past time. Lucy quoted her great great (and wise) aunt to finish the talk: “isolation is death, only in union is there life”, a great mantra for a sustainable future.

[Tessy]

That's a lovely story Kimberley - thank you very much for sharing it here :)