blk24ga:

Liberia

Loooove the shots of entrepreneurs!

A WOMAN’S GOAL
Afghanistan women’s national football team

In Afghanistan women aren’t granted the opportunity to freely develop in many levels of society. Football gives women in Afghanistan
the chance to build confidence and a new quality of life unknown to them before. Fear of attack is an ever-present threat. That is why
the women’s team is accompanied by security detail and train every other day on ISAF’s military base in Kabul. Therefore it is not unusual
for the women to be forced to interrupt practice for the landing of a military helicopter at midfield. The young women’s parents, while
supporting their daughter’s wishes to play football, are also concerned with their safety and future. In a patriarchal society, like Afghanistan,
football is considered inappropriate for women. Between this tension of excitement for sports and the traditional roles that afghan women
have in society, rests my photography.

(via afghanistaninphotos-deactivated)

venusinthefifth:

Shea: From Nuts to Butter (by LunaJessie)

Created for Malian National Television, this video teaches rural Malian women how to make improved shea butter. (Local production techniques result in a shea butter that cannot be exported. New techniques and the formation of cooperatives allow women to export their butter for a profit). The production was shot in a rural village in Mali, West Africa. One woman teaches another how to improve her practices in order to make export-quality shea butter. 

Love peer-to-peer learning. Tempted to try this ourselves ;)

(via dynamicafrica)

afghandev:

Last Wednesday, Roya Mahboob from Citadel Software and her team in Herat, Afghanistan, celebrated the official opening of the second Film Annex Internet classroom at Houz-E-Karbas, an high school with 4000 students, two thirds females.

More about the opening here, and all the photos from construction to opening here.

:D

(Source: womensannex)

nickturse:

Flying high

Egypt’s Enas Mansour competes in the women’s long jump final during the Arab Games in Doha. REUTERS/Mohammed Dabbous

AWESOME.

teacherlp:

#geographyteacher

A million times over.

(Source: dat-asterisk)

tumblingfromthecave:

Sokode, Togo, 1991: “As part of a micro-finance plan, this woman received a loan to build a second oven so she could expand her bakery business.”

- Betty Press as featured in NPR

(via invest2innovate)

errantreality:

These women are awesome. They seriously are.

Wow. Co-signed.

tumblingthroughthecity:

A grassroots approach to non-profit work is tough. The traditional model where money is granted by either the government or a major foundation requires a decent amount of up-front money, plus most major granting orgs only give funds to NGOs that have been around for a requisite number of years.

The More than Me Foundation, a non-profit I work with, has done amazing things in the last two and a half years by using social media to bring together a network of volunteers and small donors.

More than Me is in a Facebook contest that could potentially be a game changer. Check out this link on how to vote. Girls’ education has become the cause du jour in development, but it really is amazing to see the impact it has on the lives of not just the girls who are learning in a classroom for the first time, but also their parents, brothers, and the community. 

Please Vote!

So, Tumblr, if you find yourself on the Facebook, please vote. It really will make a difference. 

We <3 More Than Me. Go-go gadget contest winning!

chillimango:

Leymah Gbowee 

Amazing Heroine of Liberia.

Nobel Peace laureate Leymah Gbowee, 39, mobilised women from across Liberia’s ethnic and religious divides to call for an end to Liberia’s brutal 14-year civil war.