Ideas for Change in America

This has been a major concern of our charity too. We hope this will top the agenda. Unless the world decides empower women, the world will be producing more illierates and poverty striken people.

One incident coming to my mind is a story I read in an Indian newspaper which published an article about a pregneant women being pused out of the hospital for being poor, low caste and untouchable. She went out and gave birth to a child where nobody tried to help her and the baby and mother died undedr horrible circumstances. So, Education and Empowering women is the key for a civilized world.

Women must be empowered if the children of the world are to survive and thrive.

Mary Higgins

ICM Board member

good job wiish you all the best.

My main concern is that pregnancy should be CHOSEN: effective contraception allied to FULLY-ACCESSIBLE, NON-JUDGMENTAL, abortion when required.  I would also maintain, however, that it should be the absolute right of every woman to experience a healthy pregnancy, whether chosen or not, followed by whatever help, and/or pain relief, is needed by each individual woman during labour. 

My idea is to educate men about women's rights. If the woman exerts herself and demand her rights and the man doesnot even understand what she is talikg about we as women will move at snail speed towards our goal. If men understand what women are talking about they will eventually  become our partners in the real sense.

Empowering the woman is empowering the nation and the world at large. Looking at the situation of Africa most of the low learneth are women and the least to be considered in any given condition. Educating the women remain the main backbone  behind building the world free of poverty since the women are there for their children, husbands and the family at large.

We need a worldwide grassroots movement for the women and girls of the world. A documentary to be called The Stories Women Tell is in the works with the help of the Packard  Foundation and others.  Please see www.lindaharrarproductions.com Evolution, is not enough. We need a revolution for women's education, health and human rights.

Healthy women make healthy families,who make healthy econamies.

kay O'Sullivan

Midwife.(Ireland)

Women's Rights and Human Rights are not mutually exclusive.

R-e-S-p-E-c-t.................to me says it all, to us all.  We are ONE.

One very important way to invest in women is to value the unused womb.

By providing alternative opportunities for social status, self-actualization, and self- sufficiency other than motherhood, a woman truly has the freedom to choose.

If all childless women were given extra social security at the age of 50, no woman would ever need to choose motherhood as a rite of passage into adulthood or a means of social security. All children would be treasured gifts.

Childless women elders should be considered venerable in self-sacrifice rather than barren.

In Brazil, cattle ranchers are given money as a carbon offset to not burn more of the rain forest.

If they deserve a carbon offset, so do the world's childless women for not burdening the health, educational and welfare sectors of society with their unmanifest progeny and to ease the burdens of a lone survival-strategy in old age.

Women get educated ,well nourished and empowered the family is cared properly;safe child birth and safe motherhood leads to healthy family cycle and future of Nation is  healthy, educated and fit to lead the country. In short, MOTHER IS THE CRADLE OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION

Safe motherhood is an important concept. I give you my vote for that.

I welcome you to look at my idea that would solve many social, economic and environmental problems through a holistic-systemic or holigent approach:

Holigent Revolution for Economic security, Peace and Sustainability

There are few fundamental options for reducing energy consumption to a sustainable level and energy independence. One is socioeconomic collapse – not a choice but a probable default scenario. The other is a transition to a hybrid socioeconomic operating system. Here is a revolutionary idea.

The Holigent REvolution proposes to redesign the way we live, work, commute, consume and govern ourselves to create economic security, peace and sustainability a community at a time by building a prototype mixed-use, live/work, low-carbon, mass-transit served compact Holigent Urban Village. This prototype development will facilitate and demonstrate the transition from suburban sprawl to vertical expansion, from car-dependent to car-free living, and from unsustainable capitalist consumerism to a sustainable hybrid socioeconomic operating system. 

This hybrid system utilizes the best features of capitalism in tandem with direct human resource input that creates and retains local value and wealth significantly independent of general/global economic uncertainties.  Holigent communities will also prevent rather than fight crime by providing outreach, training and jobs for adjacent neighborhoods with special attention to their at-risk youth.  Beyond the demonstration Urban Village, we propose the development of Holigent Communities into regional and then national networks that would create a million or more construction-related and other jobs and leave a legacy of quality of life in secure, affordable and sustainable communities across America.  Learn more at www.holigent.org

If you like my idea I would welcome your vote at   http://bit.ly/97ARxB

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Hello all,

Please consider voting for my suggestion, which:

* complements your/this suggestion

* is in the Jobs & the Economy category

* calls for "jobs stimulus" that subsidizes American consumers and producers of customized education, and American operators of associated online markets

* draws on the work of top learning scientists, growth economists, innovation scholars, research organizations, etc.

* if acted on, will do A LOT of good for children

My suggestion: www.change.org/ideas/view/jobs_stimulus_that_subsidizes_consumers_and_producers_of_customized_education_and_operators_of_associated_online_markets

More details: www.OpportuniTV.com

Best regards,

Frank Ruscica

Womens rights to fair pay, hours and promotion are essential to the health and wellbeing of a family.  Unfair, illegal practices, low pay, inadequate pension and holiday provisions and no possibility of promotion after gaining extra qualifications, experience, education is unacceptable.

Women's only role is not bearing and raising children. Women are more important than men in many ways. While women are increasingly becoming key players in economy, they hold full responsibility for keeping the family together and happy. Women should be given full and equal respect; indeed they deserve more than equal respect in the society. However, each culture and society have their values, which must also be repsected and incorporated into women's empowerment. Dr. Farid Midhet

Women are not dying of conditions we cannot treat, they are dying because society does not consider them worth treating. We have to educate and empower women, but equally, we must educate men to believe that women are not the problem, they are the solution. Governments are now waking up to the fact that we are two thirds of the way to 2015, when the MDGs have to be met. If they could just realise that if they resourced MDG 5, many of the other MDGs would be met, e.g. getting and keeping children in school reducing infant & child mortality, reducing poverty.. so much would happen if we just keep the mothers alive. We are doing our bit www.hopeforgracekodindo.org    

Good Luck with this!

Safe motherhood should not be looked at as simply a woman's issue but rather as a human rights issue and development issue. Men are major stakeholders in improving safe motherhood since they are major decision makers in the home, community and nation. Male involvement is very critical if we are to reduce the high maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in Sub - Saharan Africa.

My vote is with you

Our vote is with White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood

From;

Society for Advancment of Health, Education & Research

I totally agree that a health nation depends on a woman.

I support the work and campaigns of the White Ribbon Alliance

reproductive health and safemotherhood should always implment togerther.more community education is needed on sefe motherhood and reproductive health.male and famale involvement in reproductive and safemotherhood programmes/activities is very critical.

safemotherhood and reproductive health programmes/activities should not be since as health issue rather a development issues and call on every body in the community be get involed and participate.

women is the cornerstone of the family.

Women are the cornerstone of the famly.

Empowerment of women is a gigh ranking for better change in the society

woman!, without her, man is nothing. to this end, women need to be empowered because they are the bedrock of any home or nation.

Women should be empowered socio-economic aspect.

Without a healthy woman we cannot develop our world.

So, for development of our world every woman should address for their empowerment.

Thanks.

Dear All, 

We welcome the strategy & approach of Invest in Women very much and this is the need of the present prevailing situation. If the ladies are empowered in the house, the entire family becomes strengthened and as an effect, the community, nation and world at a large become progress. 

At last in India we have recognized the importance of women and making the bill to empower the women and providing the opportunity to play their role in decision making for the better communit/nation. We wish all the countries in the world should recognize the women power & ability and provide them an opportunity to perform their role. 

 Our vote is with White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood and totally agrees that, world health depends on women. On behalf of our indigenous people as an organization we appeal to the Obama administration that it is time to Invest in Women. 

Once again we appreciate the efforts of White Ribbon Alliance for the better world and we wish good luck. 

Jayanand

Director-ACTIVE

investment in Women will definitely bear fruit. USAID should also invest in women in countries where they are operative.

Empowering the woman is empowering the nation and the world at large. Looking at the situation of Africa most of the low learneth are women and the least to be considered in any given condition. Educating the women remain the main backbone  behind building the world free of poverty since the women are there for their children, husbands and the family at large.

Invest in women health makes healthy nation

Without them,we could not be.

Our mothers,our daughters,our sisters,our wives,our friends,our nation,our future.

Without them,we woould not be and we will not be

They are critical to our development,they are our strongholds.

Lets save our mothers,lets save our nations,lets save our future

Lets invest in saving them,lets support their well being

Lets all invest in safe motherhood

thanks for the work to save mothers in the world

It is nice idea to get immediate result from an concentrated effort

Severe psychiatric disorders during and afer pregnancy are the single most frequent serious complications of  pregnancy.  There are over 800,000 new case a year in the United Sates alone. If untreated these diseases do not merely damge the mother, but her newborn, her intimate realtionships, and her other children. The second leading cause of medical morbidity worldwide is depression in women. Less than 15% of women ever get help. Two of the most inportant reasons are the stigma of mental illness and intmese feelings of guilt and shame.

The good news is that early derpession screening and treatment identifies and cures over 90% of cases. This has been demonstrated by a program begun at the National Naval Medical Center in Behtesda Maryland, and which has gone on to become the standard of care throughout the United States Military.

The Family Mental Health Institute in Washington helps health care organizations and sysem to implement programs in whcih every women who is pregnant or is a new mother gets screened for depression. These have included the Healthy Start Intitative, the Healthy Family Iniatives of the Burea of Maternal and Dhild Care of the Depatment of Health and Human Services.  The Eastern Shore of Maryland, a rural area and the inner city of Washington DC. These programs are simple, effective, and inexpensive

  The primary goal is to reduce infant mortality. At the same time it prevents maternal mortality from suicide and homicide or the other untreated complications of pregnancy, such as diabetes and hyperension.

Over 25 % of unwed teenage  mothers enrolled in programs to improve their lives cannot benefit from them because of severe depression.

That there is a medical epidemic 20 times as prevalent as AIDs that goes almost unknown is a manifestation an underlying profound negative attitude towards women. Whjile appeals on the behalf of mothers do not work, citing the fact that it saves babies does.

For more information see the FMHI website for mothers,

ppdhope.org

Ralph Wittenberg, MD

I`m a WRA and a Friend Of Lake Nakuru. Startistic shows more women especially in Africa dying during delivery than Elephants and Rhino from potchers. Who will protect and watch beautiful animals if all largest nature lovers` biggest %-women- are mortalized just because funds to protect them are not there?