{"id":326,"date":"2009-11-11T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2009-11-12T11:44:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T18:44:21","slug":"how-can-we-help-ensure-our-security-here-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/11\/how-can-we-help-ensure-our-security-here-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"How can we help ensure our security here at home?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I read in the book Half the Sky<\/a> (Kristof\/Wudunn, [New York: Knopf, 2009], xx-xxi) that the Joint Chiefs of Staff now consider the education of women and girls important to our military goals in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and consequently to our security here at home, it gave me hope that US military thinking has evolved from the days of \u2018Shock and Awe\u2019.<\/p>\n

The UN, UNICEF, the World Bank, CARE and other experts on poverty reduction like Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Farmer have indicated that the key to alleviating global poverty and its attendant ills (like fundamentalism and extremism) is by empowering women and girls. Yet today less than 1% of US foreign aid targets programs that empower women and girls. Evidently it hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed that the countries we are having the most trouble with right now are countries that marginalize their females. Hopefully this realization by the Joint Chiefs will prompt some rethinking about the allocation of our foreign aid funds.<\/p>\n

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\nHumaria,11, sells eggs on the streets of Kabul to help support her family. She has never attended school. Today the literacy rate for girls in Afghanistan is 15% in the urban areas like Kabul and .6% in the rural areas.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Fortunately, the citizen sector (non-profit organizations) are stepping up to fill this need. There are literally thousands of organizations providing micro credit loans and educational opportunities for women and girls or addressing the issues of maternal mortality, violence against women and child trafficking.<\/p>\n

The big question most of us are asking is how can we help? In my next blog I would like explore how nonprofit models of giving are evolving to become more personal and transparent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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