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The Empowerment Statue.
Designed by the artist Stephen Broadbent, sponsored by Alstom Power (now Siemens), and completed in 2002, the sculpture spans the River Witham in Lincoln's City Square. It takes the form of two aluminium-and-steel human figures reaching to each other across the water. The design is intended to echo the shape of turbine blades, in recognition of Lincoln's industrial heritage.
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This is a sculpture across the River Witham in Lincoln City Centre called 'Empowerment'. It is inspired by the blades of a wind turbine and stands 17 metres high.
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In Nepal, the Rural Women's Economic Empowerment Joint Programme, implemented by UN Women, Food and Agriculture Organization, International Fund for Agricultural Development and World Food Programme, and funded by a consortium of donors seeks to improve women farmers’ agricultural production and income, but also changed gender-discriminatory attitudes of their male counterparts.
Rural women form a large proportion of the agricultural labour force in Nepal and play a vital yet unrecognized role in agriculture that sustains nearly 80 percent of the population. Perceived mainly as care givers, their work in farming is largely undervalued. Women farmers are often paid less than men for the same work, and lack access to resources and markets due to discriminatory attitudes. However, since the launch of the Joint Programme, a new narrative is unfolding across the villages of Rauthat and Sindhuli districts.
As more Nepalese men migrate abroad to find work, an increasing number of rural women are taking up farming. By improving women’s agricultural production, access to markets and leadership skills, the programme has increased their income, food security and independence.
Pictured: Chandra Kala Thapa along with her husband Bir Bahadur Thapa keep track of income from the sale of recently-harvested eggplant. With support from the Joint Programme, Chandra converted her field from grain production to high-value vegetables such as eggplant.
Photo: UN Women/Narendra Shrestha
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at the launch event for U.S. Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls, at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 15, 2016. [State Department Photo/Public Domain]
Beauty isn't a performance, we don’t twerk for a cause.
We rise in solidarity. United strength changes laws.
Power is in the spirit, in the mind, in the soul.
Power is not in how many body parts one can grab,
and hold.
If you want to be respected, know that your body is
not a commodity. And yes, you should be proud of
your beauty. But don’t let it go to your head. We don’t
forge a path forward, by offering ourselves in bed.
And i bet she got them flavors. I bet her twerk is mean.
But them things ain’t for everybody spending money
on the scene. And sure you ain’t trying to lay up, and
stay up with a broke lover. But you don’t truly love
yourself if for money you under covers. You up under
them sheets, thinking like street walkers in the streets.
And you thinking that you hot. You like men that
carry heat? And what you going to say when you
find that you lost your way? When you finally meet
God because you got shot in the face? You got that
lingerie? It look hot on you today! But are you really
safe, running around with your lace. Sure he down to
ride, until he start to catch a case. You certain that he
love you? Or that he might lay your body to waste?
Don’t waste… time. Elevate your mind. You can be
intelligent, pursue your own wealth, and stay fly.
Yeah, you look fine. But don’t let your looks mess
with your mind. Sure; you can be captivating.
Hear what i’m saying. It’s your ass at the party! It’s
your ass he displaying. But you still having fun.
Everything seems right. You got your man, got your
money, got your car, got your hype! But you influencing
others to follow in your path. The dark night of the soul…
will be the aftermath. You see, there is always, the one.
The one that is on the prowl, the one that wants to see
you lead astray. Away from God’s love as soon as… now!
Away from God’s gifts. And you don’t believe it, because
you can’t see it? But, what you can see… is the comedy and
the tragedy! The industry, the entertainment, and the system…
that ultimately causes many to fall. Open your eyes to the
scheme of it all. See where humanity is meant to fail.
See that the more you lose your way, the more that others
rise. It is a power dynamic playing out right before your
eyes. Men are dying, women are dying, because of the
images we choose to lift up and project. Are these images
showing the strength of our ancestors, our people, or
neglect? What is true wealth and where does it come from?
First off, true wealth is knowing that love isn’t for sell.
True wealth is individual growth, mental growth, spiritual
growth, physical growth, family growth. And… financial
growth, yes, but not growing financially while selling your soul.
You see, the goal is for you to lose your way, and forget.
This truth is hidden deep within the recesses of the spirit
and mind. And it takes true discernment, and pure intentions
to find. And when you seek out money in a way that elevates
it, as more important than considering God. You fall into the lie.
And the truth seems a facade. And so you have a decision to
make in this life. And i suggest you dig deep. Because
discovering the truth when it’s to late… the price to pay is
to steep. And i’m not talking about Hell. I’m talking about
missing a true Heaven. You can get lost from it in your pursuits
of a material life. There are gifts that God is waiting to give
you when you are ready! And the longer you take to get ready,
possibly lifetimes… and the more lost you become and the
more astray you go, the more the gift is lost and the connection
is broken. Seek the power of the truth that is always spoken!
Your breasts, like pearls. Your body brings ecstasy. This gift
is meant to parallel the feeling of Heaven and it is a gift from
God: not meant to be exploited by anybody! Only lost ones,
and dark hearts seek the exploitation of the gifts of the light.
Sex is a gift and God provided it, because God is Love. God
gave the gift of Life. Therefore, God stands Above! Consider
God in all matters. Consider God with Love. You do this, and
you will perceive beings that are of Heaven. This i know to be
True. Then all successes will be in reach, not only financially,
but spiritually. If this is something you don’t care about, than
continue to do you. Just keep in mind that our children's
children will be screwed! Our descendants, always failing!
Why, because if we don’t lead Our people in the “right”
direction, who will? We can lead simply by living decent lives,
and being a positive influence, but instead, we put our bodies
up for give and take. And there’s always people waiting in the
shadows, waiting to point out our flaws, and our mistakes!
We call ourselves goddesses, queens, princesses and more.
So why influence women, and young girls to act like whores?!
This is what some women do! And just because they may be
educated doesn’t make it right. Manipulated, manipulative
fools… Following these self proclaimed so called “Kings” that
exploit you! Notice the relationship drama on television or at
home? Notice the declining importance of life and love, and the
rising importance of primitiveness in relations to sex? Notice
the pain, and needless killings inflicted from one person to
the next. Is your worth really Valued in the world? Products…
of a clever ruse, meant to Stop your peoples Evolution and
cause Your People to Disappear off the face of the Planet,
One by One, and to never discover your gifts from God. This
is the resulting future… of female empowerment fraud.
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8/27/2020.
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Confidence to tackle dreams, the increasing will to strengthen ones self is a great virtue.
This shot is a genuine moment of a little island boy, stretching out his arms towards the sky while I never asked for it. It isn't staged whatsoever, and lies completely on his own will. The yacht in the background brings something personal to me. Since a small kid I always wanted to be a naval architect, designing yachts and this was my dream. Here is see this boy, living his life, looking committed to strive for his own dreams, something I always wanted to do. So this picture, mirrors my ambition as a small boy.. and means alot to me.
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Empowering Women..........International Women’s Day, 8 March 2013
An artisan making a bamboo basket at West Bengal State Handicrafts Expo 2012 at Milan Mela, Kolkata
India’s largest handicraft’s fair, an annual event displays the workmanship of the artisans of West Bengal, the neglected frontrunners of traditional art of the state.
Around 3000 participants from almost every districts of West Bengal display their art of jute, cane furnitures and baskets, handloom products, Totem poles made of bamboo shoots, 'Chhau' masks, wood carvings, wooden and clay dolls, Madhubani and other traditional paintings, sawdust art, terracotta, wooden and coconut shell artifacts and other home decors.
The traditional origins based on culture and mythology, the workmanships, the richness of ideas, the brilliant combination of pure simplicity and glamour bring an amazing experience to truly understand their talent.
The Expo spreads over an area of 82,000 sq. ft. and has incurred a total sales of Rs.859.00 lakh (£1 million pound) in the year 2010-11 and Rs.1076.63 lakh (£1.25 million pound) in 2011-12. It is the initiative of the Department of Micro and Small Scale Enterprises and Textiles, Government of West Bengal, organized every year with the aim to provide the artisans an exposure to the urban markets, know their taste and interact with the buyers or exporters directly, so that they can get orders for their products all throughout the year.
Beautiful Bengal, India
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at the launch event for U.S. Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls, at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 15, 2016. [State Department Photo/Public Domain]
Empowering Women..........International Women’s Day, 8 March 2013
An artisan looking at her hand-carved Totem poles made of bamboo shoots at West Bengal State Handicrafts Expo 2012 at Milan Mela, Kolkata
India’s largest handicraft’s fair, an annual event displays the workmanship of the artisans of West Bengal, the neglected frontrunners of traditional art of the state.
Around 3000 participants from almost every districts of West Bengal display their art of jute, cane furnitures and baskets, handloom products, Totem poles made of bamboo shoots, 'Chhau' masks, wood carvings, wooden and clay dolls, Madhubani and other traditional paintings, sawdust art, terracotta, wooden and coconut shell artifacts and other home decors.
The traditional origins based on culture and mythology, the workmanships, the richness of ideas, the brilliant combination of pure simplicity and glamour bring an amazing experience to truly understand their talent.
The Expo spreads over an area of 82,000 sq. ft. and has incurred a total sales of Rs.859.00 lakh (£1 million pound) in the year 2010-11 and Rs.1076.63 lakh (£1.25 million pound) in 2011-12. It is the initiative of the Department of Micro and Small Scale Enterprises and Textiles, Government of West Bengal, organized every year with the aim to provide the artisans an exposure to the urban markets, know their taste and interact with the buyers or exporters directly, so that they can get orders for their products all throughout the year.
Beautiful Bengal, India
Another trip down Memory Lane ...
These photos are from a shoot I did way back in September 2003; I was just starting out with digital cameras and working with models. I was equally clueless in both areas. I think I was using a Olympus and a Kodak digital camera. I also noticed that back at that time I was doing a lot of very tight close-ups to the detriment of others. Lessons learned.
The model here is a young lady named Anna; she was one of favorite models back then. Always fun to shoot with - great personality, sweet and sassy, gorgeous body, and very sharp. We didn't have themes back then, we just let the mood decide her outfits - and apparently this included a fitness shoot.
I took these photos at Westchester Lagoon, Anchorage, Alaska on a gorgeous late afternoon in September 2003. I miss those days!
Mission to Cambodia: Beneficiaries of the EmPower project in Cambodia, 17-19 October 2022
Photo: UN Women/Ploy Phutpheng
Photo captured via Minolta MD W.Rokkor-X 24mm F/2.8 Lens and the bracketing method of photography on State Route 155, the Coulee Corridor National Scenic Byway. Grand Coulee Recreation Area. Upper Grand Coulee Region. Columbia Plateau Region. Grant County, Washington. Early May 2016.
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: +1 / -1
Mission to Cambodia: Beneficiaries of the EmPower project in Cambodia, 17-19 October 2022
Photo: UN Women/Ploy Phutpheng
Mission to Cambodia: Beneficiaries of the EmPower project in Cambodia, 17-19 October 2022
Photo: UN Women/Ploy Phutpheng
“Snakes and Ladders”-Resilience Guide
POWER OF UTTERANCE…
The children I work with have usually failed more times than they have succeeded. They usually have given up on adults and do not trust any system the adults want to use to “fix” them.
Now this also means 80% of these students have missed out on learning the sounds of the alphabet. If these sounds are not learned and mastered when young all other learning falls away into “no where land “ and we are left with a child in a state of hopelessness, or self-hate for being so stupid or dumb and in a lot of cases for the rest of their lives.
After working out what kind of dominate learner they are as well as exploring in safe ways, that suits each individual child’s needs, what sounds they do or do not know I then share with them that the sounds they are missing is the major reason they have struggled in all other areas of learning.
The relief on each child’s face when they hear they can find a way out of the horrid place of hopelessness and despair is beyond any human words but felt deep within the heart and soul.
I found a solution the children could take back into their classrooms to achieve continued advancements to get themselves up to par with other students which did not require me being with them.
What was missing in the majority of these children’s experiences was they were not getting opportunities to hear their own voices. The power of speech, utterance, hearing yourself speak, or singing, or chanting, or reading out loud is the only way the bridges in the brain can be built between eyes/feeling brain to the ears/thinking brain and doing/instinct brain. It is this foundational process of “hearing your own voice” that builds these bridges which is a critical element in learning at all other levels.
To achieve unity of inner systems these bridges need to be built and you are never too old to start to build them.
As the human brain grows and develops over thousands and thousands of years so does the growth and development of the super human power of speech, words, talking, utterance and language towards the capacities of contemplation, meditation, reflection, pondering and higher levels of conscious thinking. Out of these areas of growth comes comprehension, understanding and many more intellectual skills.
What you see in each individual human’s development of speech and brain growth patterns you also see the exact same growth and development patterns in the collective human race. What is in the Macro is the same pattern in the Micro.
These children taught me that the more they got to talk and share their ideas and thoughts with adults and the adults took the time to listen and respectively reflect back to the children accepting and genuine belief in the child the stronger the child’s abilities increased in their classrooms.
The more the children got to develop their language, vocabulary and communication skills while talking to the adults around them the stronger their reading, writing , thinking, reflection and pondering capacities also strengthen. The stronger their thinking and reflection skills developed the more their brains grew and developed. The communication skills are symbiotic with brain growth and development.
So does anyone know why most adults do not want to talk to children? What is so scary to most adults to find out how children see the world around them or find out how the child is feeling about the world around them? Why do parents work so hard to get their very young babies to talk and as soon as they have mastered the capacity to talk the parents no longer want to hear what they have to say and ask them to be quite?
Classroom teachers around the world set all sorts of amazing information in front of the children they are teaching and as soon as the children see and hear this information they immediately burst into speech with their friends sitting next to them with excitement and joy with what they have just learned and 90% of classroom teachers read this behaviour as being disrespectful and shut them all down immediately.
Why and when did adults create such a false reality of what children are doing was evil and wrong and disrespectful to the teacher?
Children need to put into words immediately what they have just learned so they can hear their thoughts out loud to build bridges of learning across to their other brains and learning styles.
As teachers are given more and more of what communities and parents used to be responsible for in the education and training of children the children are falling further and further behind in their language, social, emotional and spiritual strengths. Let’s be honest here humanity; teachers have to be given the slack here and community and parents need to take back responsibilities.
As I have been observing this process and trying to understand what the children are actually doing I learned from the children that it does not matter how many times they hear the teacher or others say words or sounds it is the child’s own voice being heard by their own ear that builds the bridges in the brain between the different brains and connects the collective learning development of the child.
Let me put that another way. For the human brains to connect and then be able to unify into one collective learning system each individual brain requires to hear their own voice speaking, sounds, speaking out loud for the bridges between each different brain; thinking/hearing, seeing/feeling and doing/instinct brain to work to their collective optimum.
I explain to the children if they want to learn to read or spell, or write they have to say the sounds out load for their own ears to hear their own voice and this is what builds the bridges from their eyes to their ears to their action brains.
Every time I explain this to a child I see them breath as they understand how they can now achieve instead of failing (every child is hungry to learn).. All children are looking for answers to how to empower themselves and stop being dependant on others and to achieve success instead of continuing to fail.
The other level to the power of utterance is when a story is not shared, when a child goes unheard that story, trauma, memory will just keep playing out or within over and over again in the thinking brain until someone stops long enough for the child to share and for someone to actually listen and acknowledge they have heard them. The amount of adults of all ages I have sat with as they share stories they have carried all their lives that have blocked their own development has been a tragedy in its self.
When that person was given the opportunity to share their story regardless of age they then are free to move forward and grow up all other social, emotional and spiritual selves. Working with children has far more value than waiting until they reach older age to clear these blockages.
Every child on this planet needs to have adults give them time to express their own thoughts and feelings and have reflected back to them they have been heard and are valued. Then the natural continuum of maturity can be freed to advance all of humanity forward and not just a lucky few.
Womens works at a brick field on the eve of International Women's Day at Haroa village in West Bengal, India.