WOMAN IS KEY and Education is Key for women, especially if they’re born in Africa.
In Africa, education, a profession, or training in a skill or vocation, is empowering.
For me it’s important that we share what we learn. We must share our skills and we must pass them on.
We can never hear it enough.
Hear what?
Hear how to be successful. What is success? Success is the completion of your worthwhile goal.
Remember. Your goal!
We are hoping that this time, maybe someone will resonate with you and be the spark to get you started or to keep you going. In many cases you know what you want, but may have hit a snag in your life that may derail you, if you are not encouraged by someone else. Here are two ladies whose belief in God is a factor they will tell you is important to them, and hopefully to you also.
Rachel Quist, is currently a college student expecting to receive a degree in 2016. She hopes to work at the United Nations in future.
“I believe my faith and trust in God has opened many doors for me. Even though I haven’t had much experience in life, it’s been quite a journey with expected ups and downs.”
“Creating goals and achieving them with hard work, perseverance, and determination, irrespective of the odds are major ingredients for success.”
“Voice out your opinions, and the brilliant ideas in which you have faith. Make friends with people who share your ideas and would push you to bring out the best in you.”
“Most importantly be a woman, be beautiful, be strong, and be classy in it all.”
Doreen Kwakye currently working in the medical field had this to say:
“In my life, what I’ve detected in a way that I can communicate as a vision and give direction to better women’s future, is being myself and loving what God has invested in me to be.”
“In life, as a woman I had to detect and learn how much I’m worth not in money, but as a human being. As a woman! I had to be better than what I was brought up to be, to set myself as a role model for others.”
“Women now a days have to learn to encourage themselves. We already know that compared to men we are weaker vessels but spiritually we are stronger. What I’m trying to say is that, spiritually, women have to live right, and stay strong, because if we are not living right spiritually, it affects us physically.”
“We tend to settle for less and that should never happen. We are worthy and valuable!”
It’s nice when someone famous or powerful assists in making things better locally.
It’s also nice when others get involved and not wait.
I volunteered at the recent (e)merge Art Fair in Washington DC. As an artist I wanted to experience meeting other artists in exhibition mode. How artists come across to the average buyer or browser and maybe learn something more about the dynamics of social interaction.
Since I was a volunteer, I got to know as many artists as I could and got them to explain their work. I did this in order to point people to their respective booths when asked.
One of the booths I went to was occupied by Beth Hansen and Ann-Marie VanTassell, together with other members of Pleasant Plains Workshop.
Their enthusiasm was indeed infectious as they invited a number of people to take part in their screen printing demos. I did a demo and got to keep the screen printed scarf they helped me make.
It became a nice gift for my wife.
After the Art Fair, we kept in touch by email and I found out that we also have the same interest: children.
I teach children in church the Bible and they teach children and others in their neighborhood art program.
I also found out that the two ladies had met at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in 2007. Beth had studied printmaking and Ann-Marie photojournalism.
After working for a few years and trying to make art in the city, Beth and Ann-Marie both began to feel the struggles that many young artists face.
Ann-Marie said: “We needed studio space, but we could barely afford rent. We also missed the sense of an artistic community that we felt while in school. One day we just decided to band together and make things happen!”
She continued: “We started The Arcade, which is a non-profit dedicated to keeping the arts accessible in our neighborhood. We do a lot of pop-up workshops with different after school programs focusing mainly on print mediums, but some painting and sculpture gets mixed in there, too. We are most proud of our after school art program we started with DASH (District Alliance for Safe Housing)” http://www.dashdc.org/2013/10/08/art-group-from-the-childrens-perspective/
Beth reminded me we also feel passionately about preventing domestic violence.
On the platform of life we all find ourselves, it’s good to meet like-minded people.
Check out these game-changers, Beth and Ann-Marie here: http://www.thearcadedc.blogspot.com/
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