WOMAN of ACTION – Ayi Jihu

speaks on Cyber Bullying at RJ LANG School, Toronto, Canada on behalf of A Celebration of Women Foundation Inc.

In a classroom filled with young girls from all over the world, in Toronto, Canada a city and a country that prides itself on the mosaic of its immigration policy. A Chinese star found herself right at home as she looked into their excited, expecting eyes. For maybe the first time in her career Ayi Jihu found herself with an Audience of Ayi Jihu’s. Young girls from all over the world, Albania, Iran, Korea, China, Russia, India, Pakistan, etc who just like her find themselves in a new country at a young age and having to deal with all the problems that something like that can bring.

 

This was not just a get together to sign autographs, and promote a song. This was a serious mission. Ayi Jihu is working to combat Cyber bullying using her Fear Chaser persona, but today she added a twist by bringing Michael Jackson into the mix. Everyone knows Michael Jackson and after Ayi Jihu introduced herself to the young expecting eager girls she hits them with a chorus and verse from ‘You wanna be startin something’ One of Michael Jackson’s big hits from the best selling album of all time ‘Thriller’.

Ayi Jihu knows her audience indeed, because just like her the young girls in the audience are mesmerized by Michael Jackson and with their attention secured she goes on to ram home the message of bullying by explaining the lyrics of a song millions have listened to hundreds of times but do not truly understand.

 

If ever there was any doubt of the need for an Ayi Jihu in popular culture it was dispelled in this classroom. We live in a world now where Ayi Jihu’s are everywhere. Immigrants and expats trying to fit in in strange lands and in Ayi Jihu they see someone who understands what they are going through. Canada is advanced in its thinking of integration and understanding, opening its doors to people from all over the world. However to a lesser degree this classroom represents many major western cities and countries.

Keen to ram her message home Ayi keeps the attention of her now enthralled audience by showing the trailer of her Movie and Movement Fear Chaser. She is keen to get the point across that the bully as well as the bullied both are afraid and it is fear that is behind much of the new wave of bullying and cyber bullying that is plaguing schools across North America and the world. Social Websites have changed our world in many ways for the good, but they are a two edged sword that have left some young people thinking of nothing else but suicide.

In Ayi Jihu these young girls see someone who has overcome their problems and issues and succeeded. They see someone who they can believe in, and most importantly in Ayi they see someone who they can trust. Her story is their story.

There is a reason that Ayi Jihu has chosen Canada to initiate the telling of her story and to spread her message of fighting fear and bullying. Canada has one of the largest Chinese populations outside of China, a strong vibrant middle class Chinese community. Canada also has one of the most inclusive and forward thinking immigration policies in the Western world and where other countries are proud to see themselves as ‘The melting pot’ Canada is proud to see itself as the Mosaic.

As a woman of action representing A Celebration of Women Foundation Inc., Ayi Jihu is letting her actions once again speak louder than her words and her actions are making heads turn. Now Ayi Jihu stands on the brink of representing ‘Young Women on the Move’, an appointment that will see her working closely with the Toronto District School Board on a National level.

 

The little girl from Leibo, Sichuan China continues to surprise us all.

For more information on Ayi Jihu visit www.Ayijihu.com

For more information about A Celebration of Women Foundation Inc. check their website.