Amid the events surrounding the 2014 World Cup showcasing Brazil's dynamic culture, food and other assets, and the memorable plays on the soccer field, with perhaps the best so far being Robin Van Persie's masterful header against Spain on the second day of play, there's a 'dark side': deep-rooted problems simmering just below the surface in South America's largest country with child prostitution an especially grim reminder that all is not football and Carnival. In the first decade of the … [Read more...]
Child Prostitution, 2014 World Cup’s Darkest Side
June 30, 2014 by Team Celebration
Filed Under: CA-- USES, CONTRIBUTORS, SOUTH AMERICA, Uncategorized Tagged With: 2014 World Cup's Darkest Side, A Celebration of Women, acelebrationofwomen.org, Brazil, Brazilian sex trade, British, child poverty, child prostitution, child trafficking, drug abuse, favelas, nuns, pay for sex, Pimps, poverty, prostitution, Recife, Robin Van Persie, sex trade, sexual abuse, sniffing glue, soccer, South America, Take Action, TIME MAGAZINE, Vatican, women., World Cup 2014
Battered Women, “It’s in Your Hands”
June 30, 2014 by Team Celebration
Battered Women’s Support Services is making an impact one woman at a time. We contribute to the freedom and liberation of girls and women from violence and to empower our community through training and education programs. For over 30 years, we have been providing counselling and healing spaces for those who have experienced abuse. To help women build strength and resiliency, we work on systemic advocacy, law reform, in-class youth engagement programs and we operate a social enterprise … [Read more...]
Filed Under: CA-- USES, Uncategorized, WOMEN "Positive Action" Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, aggravated assault, assault and battery, battered women, Battered Women’s Support Services, battery, British Columbia, BWSS, CANADA, children, daughters, domestic abuse, domestic assault, family, family behaviours, Fathers, laws against violence, learned behaviour, men, rape, sexual violence, sons, violence, violence against women., women.
Arcadia Stands Tall, While Resources Fall Short
June 22, 2014 by Team Celebration
Arcadia Stands Tall, While Resources Fall Short JAMAICA SCHOOL PROFILES 2012/13 SUPPORTING & Celebrating: Arcadia Primary was recently ranked by the National Education Inspectorate Jamaica (NEI) as one of the top schools reviewed, placing third. This is a notable achievement for a school that doesn't even have a computer for its students. Located in the small community of the same name in the hills of St Thomas, Arcadia, Jamaica currently schools 50 students. It used to be an all-age … [Read more...]
Filed Under: CA-- USES, CARIBBEAN, CHILDCARE, EDUCATION, PROJECTS - FUNDING, Uncategorized, WOMEN Taking ACTION Tagged With: (Jamaica), A Celebration of Women, acelebrationofwomen.org, Arcadia Primary School, Arcadia Stands Tall, charity, donate today, education of children, NOT FOR PROFIT, school funding, St. Thomas, While Resources Fall Short
Sisters Under Siege, Women ~ Your Support Required!
June 22, 2014 by Team Celebration
The Women and Children of Iraq Are Under Siege "I am against war, since war means destruction, hurt and ruin. Nobody should like war especially when all the great powers of the world gang up against one country in an unequal war and try to destroy all signs of progress and make the country go back to the middle ages. People are starving to death and inflation is murder. Missiles and bombs do not think, they hit and explode-whether you are military or civilian, sick or well, old or young, men … [Read more...]
Filed Under: CA-- USES, CHILDCARE, CONTRIBUTORS, MIDDLE EAST, Uncategorized, WOMEN Taking ACTION Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, acelebrationofwomen.org, charity, children dying, Death, DONATE, donations, food, Iraq, Iraqi women, Middle East, military, NOT FOR PROFIT, rations, Sisters Under Siege, terrorism, war crimes, water, woman, women in need, Women ~ Your Support Required!, women., WORLD ISSUES
Girls interrupted – 10 Days To Act
June 16, 2014 by Team Celebration
Young delegates with Plan CEO Nigel Chapman at the African Union youth takeover in Addis Ababa 16 June 2014: Children from across Africa have taken over the African Union building in Addis Ababa today – kicking off 10 days of global action for increased investment in education. Plan-supported youths from Sierra Leone, Egypt, Malawi, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Norway, Liberia, Kenya and Germany all took part in the action in the Ethiopian capital, where they called on governments across the … [Read more...]
Filed Under: CA-- USES, FEATURED EVENTS, Uncategorized, WORLD EVENTS, YOUTH of ACTION™ Tagged With: #10DaystoAct, acelebrationofwomen.org, Addis Ababa, African Union, Burkina Faso, CEO Nigel Chapman, Egypt, Ethiopia, Germany, Girls interrupted - 10 Days To Act, KENYA, Liberia, Malawi, Norway, plan, Sierra Leone, youth of action, youth takeover
Celebrating School in Kenya, sponsor child today!
June 16, 2014 by Team Celebration
It is our honor to be of service to our fellow educators, this time inside the beautiful country of KENYA. Below are the exact descriptive words of our friend's ASK FOR HELP. "Here are some photos we took when the students in high school were taken on education tour on 11th/6/2014,this tour was sponsored by a local well wisher, they went to study different types of weather instrument at the Meteorological Station in Nairobi Dagoreti Kenya.our children in primary school will be going by … [Read more...]
Filed Under: AFRICA, CA-- USES, CHILDCARE, CONTRIBUTORS, EDUCATION, PROJECTS - FUNDING, Uncategorized, WOMEN Taking ACTION Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, acelebrationofwomen.org, Africa, African children, alliance, Celebrating School in Kenya, charity, DONATE, donate today, donations, educate a child Africa, education, educators, giving, KENYA, NOT FOR PROFIT, philanthropists, philanthropy, schools, sponsor a child, sponsor child today!, teachers, women.
World Pulse, Last Phase of the WWW Campaign!
June 5, 2014 by Team Celebration
Share Your Thoughts on Digital Empowerment! Today, we are excited to announce the launch of the third phase of our WWW: Women Weave the Web Campaign—Digital Empowerment! How has the Internet empowered you to achieve your goals? Has it helped you find resources, connect with interesting people, get inspired? The Internet can serve a different purpose for every single person—tell us how the Internet has helped you find a job, start a business, or learn something new! Write in your journal and … [Read more...]
Filed Under: AFRICA, ASIA, CA-- USES, CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL AMERICA, CONTRIBUTORS, EURASIA, EUROPE, FEATURED EVENTS, FORMER SOVIET UNION, INSPIRATIONAL BLOGS, MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AMERICA, OCEANIA, SOUTH AMERICA, Uncategorized, WOMEN that "Share in Positive Action" for Our World!, WORLD EVENTS, YOUTH of ACTION™ Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, acelebrationofwomen.org, August 13 deadline, authors, jensine larsen, journalists, Last Phase of the WWW Campaign!, Take Action, women empowering women, WOMEN of ACTION™, women speakers, women., WORLD PULSE, worldpulse.com, writers, WWW
World Environment Day 2014, “Raise Your Voice Not the Sea Level”
June 5, 2014 by Team Celebration
Celebrate the biggest day for positive environmental action! World Environment Day (WED) is the United Nations’ principal vehicle for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the environment. Over the years it has grown to be a broad, global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated by stakeholders in over 100 countries. It also serves as the ‘people’s day’ for doing something positive for the environment, galvanizing individual actions into a collective power that … [Read more...]
Filed Under: CA-- USES, CONTRIBUTORS, FEATURED EVENTS, SPECIAL DAYS TO REMEMBER, Uncategorized, WORLD EVENTS
Say Thanks on International Day of UN Peacekeepers
May 29, 2014 by Team Celebration
Earlier this year, I visited the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, where I met a mother who fled South Sudan with her four children amid the country’s ongoing violence. Sadly, her story is not unique. More than 1 million people in South Sudan have been displaced, and while some have fled to other nations, most of them remain in the country. In the midst of this brutal conflict, United Nations peacekeepers are on the ground, working to protect vulnerable civilians. As this International Day of UN … [Read more...]
Need: Compelling Stories of Gender Based Violence
May 27, 2014 by Team Celebration
A call out to the World Pulse community, and an opportunity to be heard! We are looking for personal or personally-observed stories or articles within the topic of Violence Against Women/Gender Based Violence that contain a message of hope, a vision, action steps, or are solutions-oriented. Understanding that there is very real and rampant heartache surrounding these issues, we are also wanting to highlight insights and success stories. So many of you around the world have taken steps to … [Read more...]
Filed Under: AIDS - H.I.V., CA-- USES, CONTRIBUTORS, Courtney's Story, EURASIA, Shelby Ellery, SPECIAL DAYS TO REMEMBER, The Commune of Women - Suzan Still, The Mystic Woman - Cheril Goodrich, Uncategorized, VERONICA - INNER WHISPERS, WOMEN "Positive Action", WOMEN Taking ACTION, WORLD ISSUES Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, acelebrationofwomen.org, domestic abuse, girls, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, sexual abuse, violence against women., women., WORLD PULSE
A global voice for women, The right to be heard
May 16, 2014 by Team Celebration
"Ending Gender Based Violence." "A global voice for women: The right to be heard," Quenby Wilcox wrote: “If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.” declared Hillary Rodham Clinton at the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing almost 20 years … [Read more...]
Filed Under: CA-- USES, CONTRIBUTORS, Uncategorized, WOMEN Taking ACTION, WOMEN that "Share in Positive Action" for Our World! Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, A global voice for women, acelebrationofwomen.org, HUMAN RIGHTS, The right to be heard, UN, women helping women, women's rights, women., WORLD PULSE, worldpulse.com
Quetelle Duncombe, “Tranforming today’s princess to tomorrow’s Queen!”
May 11, 2014 by Team Celebration
"Tranforming today's princess to tomorrow's Queen! It's not what you been through but, where you are going to!! " My name is Quetell Duncombe, aka Coach QLD, a sexual abuse survivor, activist against child abuse, violence against women, mentor and founder of The Princess Maker Movement. I was molested from the aged was of 7 years old that I can recall and rejected for telling my family in an effort to get help and be protected. Needless to say, I didn't get the help nor protection and … [Read more...]
Filed Under: CA-- USES, CARIBBEAN, CONTRIBUTORS, NORTH AMERICA, Uncategorized, WOMEN that "Share in Positive Action" for Our World!, YOUTH of ACTION™ Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, acelebrationofwomen.org, break the chain, child molestation, child trafficking, family incest, girls, incest, Quetelle Duncombe, rape, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual violence, stop violence against women, women.
Surviving Cancerland: Intuitive Aspects of Healing
May 11, 2014 by Team Celebration
My Book is Launching with Amazing Gifts with Purchase on Amazon Have you ever wondered what your dreams could be telling you about your health and healing? Are you ready to learn to listen to the powerful messages and instructions they are trying to provide? My life was forever altered after lucid nightmares began bringing in guides who instructed me to seek medical attention for breast cancer that was not showing up in the routine medical tests ordered by my doctors. Visit HERE … [Read more...]
Why Do Some Girls Count more than others?
May 8, 2014 by Team Celebration
The young girls had finished their school work and settled in for the evening. It had been a long weekend of studying for everyone. On Monday, the entire school had an important exam on the workings of government. It was a tough test, so all the female students - over 200 of them - had spent the past two days focusing on doing their best. Like young people all over the world, they had many things on their minds; family, friends, and perhaps the future with all its promises. But that Sunday night … [Read more...]
Filed Under: AFRICA, CA-- USES, CONTRIBUTORS, Uncategorized, YOUTH of ACTION™ Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, acelebrationofwomen.org, Africa, African girls, African women, kidnapping, Nigeria, schoolgirls, The Examiner, violence against women., woman
The Courage to Speak® Foundation – MAY 19 – 21
May 8, 2014 by Team Celebration
The Courage to Speak Foundation announces Dates of Drug Awareness Presentations, in Participation for SAMHSA Third Annual National Prevention Week 2014. Ginger Katz, CEO and founder of The Courage to Speak® Foundation and author of Sunny’s Story, will be presenting “From Marijuana to Opiates,” on May 19 at Briggs High School in Norwalk, CT, “The Courage to Make Healthy Decisions,” on May 20 at Brookside Elementary in Norwalk, CT and “The Courage to Make Healthy Decisions,” on May 21 at … [Read more...]
Filed Under: AMERICAN [U.S.A.], CA-- USES, CHILDCARE, CONTRIBUTORS, FEATURED EVENTS, Uncategorized, WOMEN that "Share in Positive Action" for Our World! Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, acelebrationofwomen.org, anti drugs, drug abuse, drugs, just say no, MAY 19 - 21, over-dose, stop drug abuse, Take Action, The Courage to Speak Foundation, WOMEN of ACTION™, women taking action
