On this International Women’s Day I am thinking of Jenny and all the women of the world, many who must carry much more than their fair share of the weight. In this #MeToo climate it seems that maybe there has been a shift but there are miles to go before we sleep and I was reminded of the photo that accompanies this blog. A few years ago, I was visiting some of the sites where World Renew has been working, mostly with women, to increase food security, by helping women plant better yielding rice, building grain stores and even helping the women to buy rice mills. In some cases when we came into a village it was the men who came to the centre of the conversation and the photographs, when clearly it was the women who were doing most of the work. I was able to capture a group of women who were pumping water at a newly dug well. Seldom do you see men at this task so they didn't get in the photos. But it struck me that these women were the source of life in this community and many others like it. May we work hard so their lives and the lives of their daughters might be brighter.
On this International Women’s Day I am thinking of Jenny and all the women of the world, many who must carry much more than their fair share of the weight. In this #MeToo climate it seems that maybe there has been a shift but there are miles to go before we sleep and I was reminded of the photo that accompanies this blog. A few years ago, I was visiting some of the sites where World Renew has been working, mostly with women, to increase food security, by helping women plant better yielding rice, building grain stores and even helping the women to buy rice mills. In some cases when we came into a village it was the men who came to the centre of the conversation and the photographs, when clearly it was the women who were doing most of the work. I was able to capture a group of women who were pumping water at a newly dug well. Seldom do you see men at this task so they didn't get in the photos. But it struck me that these women were the source of life in this community and many others like it. May we work hard so their lives and the lives of their daughters might be brighter.
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