I am ecstatic and more filled with motivation than I can contain in my 5'5'' frame.
Today I had a very successful meeting with the director, technician, interviewer and a staff member from Al Akhawayn to discuss our massive undertakings.
Following our meeting I watched a film called Crossing Borders produced by Morocco Exchange and assistant produced by Lotfi. It truly inspired me and reminded me of what I am doing and why.
To see a trailer visit:
www.crossingbordersfilm.org
We can change and improve the human condition with pure compassion and resilience.
Today discussing our film we rolled out the structure of our project which I will dispense to you now.
We are creating a non-governmental organization (NGO), with the working title Women and a Movement. This organization will be run and implemented by Moroccans. It will be a massive network of individuals and organizations all working towards improving the condition and livelihood of Moroccan women and families. The organization will be arranged into network categories of people we know, will meet during our interviews and afterwards. These categories will include in the broadest sense education, health, enterprise, spirituality, leadership and environment. This will not only be a collaboration of Moroccan partners but we are also looking to reach out and eventually expand internationally with the hopeful collaboration of groups such as Women for Democracy and Friendship Force International.
We are working on having a forum every year for all participants to collaborate together in one space every Spring (god willing).
Our first venture into this project will be a film.
During the spring our team will be traveling throughout Morocco for an intensive 20 days of interviewing and networking. We will be collecting profiles and stories of successful Moroccan women and the communities that support them. This film will be shown to students, rural communities and all who are interested to help spread the message of empowerment, community participation and human potential for a growing movement towards women’s equal participation and contribution to society.
We will end the film with our first activity which will be hosting Friendship Force from Australia in my village for a day to discuss with the women health and wellbeing.
Accompanying the film will be an inclusive resource and action guide that will contain film discussion questions, leadership and gender activities, lists of organizations, individuals and institutions from across the country all working towards the same goal.
We will, I will, not let this project be anything less then what is stated above. We are a motivated, networked and passionate team of individuals and keep growing.
For ways to help support our vision please contact me and visit our blog.
womenandamovement.blogspot.com
Soon we hope to have up an interactive and illustrated website.
Swift speed and godbless
