By Women's Resource Center | Cambodia
Dear friends,
We're super excited to announce the release of our latest video, which celebrates our 5th anniversary – in other words, five years of working hard to empower women and advocate for women's rights in Cambodia.
The video shows just how much WRC has changed the lives of two of our previous counseling clients and one of our previous Parenting workshop participants. It also shows just how important the organization is to our team.
We believe we have found a long-term, preventative method of self-empowerment. We believe our work creates community mobilization and collaboration, and requires women and men; girls and boys to actively change the social norms that perpetuate gender inequality.
The video took six months to make but it was so worth it. First, we lost all our translations when our external hard drive broke. Turns out the regular power cuts during the hottest months of the Cambodian year fried the inside of the hard drive so that we couldn't read anything off it. Then we lost the next lot of translations when one of our computers broke down. All this was a big IT learning curve for the team.
With the perseverance of our wonderful director, Steffi Eckelmann, we finally got a finished product uploaded to Youtube. The first time we watched the video, we cried. So often we can become too focused on the projects of the future, that we don't realize the amazing accomplishments of our past.
We are so happy to have been blessed with the opportunity to touch the lives of our fellow community members. And this blessing is thanks to you. Your support has been truly invaluable and we couldn't have graduated 1,000 workshop participants without you!!
Turning five years old makes us feel established and wise, but we still have a lot of growing to do. In 2016, we are expanding our work to include village workshops as part of our outreach program. That way we can directly tackle the current culture of silence and stigma around education for women and girls by directly advocating for women’s rights and gender equality in the community.
Too often women cannot attend our in-center workshops because they can’t find anyone to look after their children. By maximizing her ability to gain knowledge, we’re maximizing her potential to be self-empowered. Plus these village workshops offer the chance for men to also participant and understand their role in bringing about gender equality in the community. They are an effective, holistic approach to breaking down existing myths and inappropriate social norms.
We have a microproject on Global Giving, specifically taking donations for this outreach project in case you’re interested.
Please share our video with your friends and family, and feel proud knowing that you helped change the lives of the people in the video.
As Pisey says in the video, “When we empower women; it’s not just for one day; it’s for her whole life!” That’s why we will continue our work.
Thank you again for your support!!
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