{"id":4595,"date":"2010-07-07T17:19:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stirringthefire.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2014-05-14T15:29:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T22:29:31","slug":"fruit-trees-saving-girls-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/07\/fruit-trees-saving-girls-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit Trees Saving Girls&#8217; Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Though paying and accepting dowry has been illegal in India for 40 years it is unfortunately still all to common.\u00a0 Strong enforcement of the Anti-Dowry Act, which has been around since 1961, doesn\u2019t exist and bride burning and female\u00a0infanticide remain a real problem for women and girls in various South Asian countries.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to an BCC article \u201cIndian Government statistics show that husbands and in-laws killed nearly 7,000 women in 2001 over inadequate dowry payments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Dharahara village, India, the families have found their own solution around this unfortunate tradition by\u00a0planting trees to celebrate the birth of a girl.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/world\/south_asia\/10204759.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ideally there would be an end of dowry deaths, bride burning, and female\u00a0infanticide all together.\u00a0 Until then, the people of Dharahara have prevented a single violent dowry or\u00a0infanticide incident.\u00a0 It is an evolutionary way around the practice so instilled in their culture.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Are you familiar with an organization working against dowry deaths, bride burning, and\/or female infanticide? \u00a0Please share them with us!<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka is another country faced with these particular challenges.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stirringthefire.com\/multimedia\/violence-against-women\" target=\"_blank\">Watch<\/a> (click on full video) how Dr. Chandini Perera is empowering women in her country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though paying and accepting dowry has been illegal in India for 40 years it is unfortunately still all to common.\u00a0 Strong enforcement of the Anti-Dowry Act, which has been around since 1961, doesn\u2019t exist and bride burning and female\u00a0infanticide remain a real problem for women and girls in various South Asian countries.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to an&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/07\/fruit-trees-saving-girls-lives\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Fruit Trees Saving Girls&#8217; Lives\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[171,172,173,174,175,122],"class_list":["post-4595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stirring-the-fire","tag-bride-burning","tag-dowry-death","tag-dr-chandini-perera","tag-female-infanticide","tag-news","tag-violence-against-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fruit Trees Saving Girls&#039; Lives - Phil Borges<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/07\/fruit-trees-saving-girls-lives\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fruit Trees Saving Girls&#039; Lives - Phil Borges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Though paying and accepting dowry has been illegal in India for 40 years it is unfortunately still all to common.\u00a0 Strong enforcement of the Anti-Dowry Act, which has been around since 1961, doesn\u2019t exist and bride burning and female\u00a0infanticide remain a real problem for women and girls in various South Asian countries.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to an... 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