International Womens Day 2010

Today is International Day and the theme for 2010 is one that I am passionate about. It’s about empowerment and there are many different themes aroung the world. There are also many different events beings celebrated around the world today. The main theme is Women to End Poverty by 2015 and in the Phillipines the theme is:Empowering Women Toward Progress

Empowering women can break the cycle of hunger and poverty. This video comes from The world food program

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The word empowerment is demonstrated in the initial micro credit program set up by Mohammed Yunis for the women of Bangaldesh through the establishment of The Grameen Bank. This is an amazing story and today there are many organizations like Kiva where women become empowered, which changes lives and then in turn the process begins to alleviate poverty .

Unifem shares a video from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Today is a celebration of women across the globe!

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Thomson Reuters invites you to join us in celebrating International Women’s Day and the role of women in bringing about positive change in the world. To mark this occasion Reuters has created a slideshow of women from across the globe, living in extraordinary times.

here is the link to view the slide show

Also you can watch and join in the live blog at

International Women’s Day 2010 LIVE (39 watchers)

Have your say on Reuters about what women’s day means to you

There is a Facebook page

You can check out other blog posts on International Womens Day at Bloggers Unite

2011 IWD Global Centenary Year
2011 will see the global centenary year for International Women’s Day – 100 years since International Women’s Day was marked for the first time where more than one million women and men attended rallies.

Do you have a special International Womens Day story to share?

What do you do to feel empowered?

Will you make a differenceto your life and that of others?

be empowered

Suzie

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Welcome To Week 7 SABs

Super Abundant Blogger.

The people chosen and their blogs will exemplify abundance, abundant thinking and generosity of spirit: they will also inspire me.

Drum roll for this week 7 SABS: This week features 3 fellow  Super Abundant Aussie Bloggers!

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Michelle Connolly provides an abundance of both free and paid resources that will help you get organized and take charge of your life. This weekend I will be reviewing Inbox Zen. This ebook looks like a great way to become both organized and simplify your email. I will report back next week

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Kelly has a great tag line for She-Power: Writing with attitude. Kelly’s openness and honesty comes through in her writing. I love the “aging rebel” in her tagline, the only way to be. It what keeps us young at heart:)

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And here is the official SAB badge for these bloggers to choose to proudly display.

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Suzie

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Welcome To Week 3 SABs

Super Abundant Blogger.

The people chosen and their blogs will exemplify abundance, abundant thinking and generosity of spirit: they will also inspire me.

Drum roll for this weeks SABS

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Glenda Watson Hyatt aka The Left Thumb Blogger and her blog Do it Myself Blog  inspired me from when I first met her at Blog World Expo in 2007.  Her blog not only motivates and inspires it provides abundant accessibility resources. In case you don’t know Glenda, I would recommend reading her  story. Glenda has Cerebral Palsy and this doesn’t stop her going where many of us would fear to tread.

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Marelisa’s tag line says it all! You will find great posts here. I love the simplicity of Marelisa’s approach to her blogging and you will always find a tip or a tool that you can use.

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Jeannette Maw inspires me through her blog The Good Vibe Blog  and her tweets that I often retweet. Jeannette’s writing resonates for me with her focus on one of my favorite topics: Vibes.

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Suzie

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Will You Make a Difference Today?

I am a big fan of Micro Lending as a way of tackling poverty. I first became aware of this when reading Muhammad Yunus’s book Banker to the Poor, many years ago. I found this to be so inspirational and a real eyeopener about how change can occur when people are empowered.

“ By giving poor people the power to help themselves, Dr. Yunus has offered them something far more valuable than a plate of food––security in its most fundamental form.” ––Former President Jimmy Carter

In researching today I found that Yunus has written a new book: “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”

What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that. As founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus pioneered microcredit, the innovative banking program that provides poor people––mainly women––with small loans they use to launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty. In the past thirty years, microcredit has spread to every continent and benefited over 100 million families. But Yunus remained unsatisfied. Much more could be done, he believed, if the dynamics of capitalism could be applied to humanity’s greatest challenges.
Now, in Creating a World Without Poverty, Yunus goes beyond microcredit to pioneer the idea of social business––a completely new way to use the creative vibrancy of business to tackle social problems from poverty
and pollution to inadequate health care and lack of education. This book describes how Yunus––in partnership with some of the world’s most visionary business leaders––has launched the world’s first purposely designed social businesses. From collaborating with Danone to produce affordable, nutritious yogurt for malnourished children in Bangladesh to building eyecare hospitals that will save thousands of poor people from blindness, Creating a World Without Poverty offers a glimpse of the amazing future Yunus forecasts for a planet transformed by thousands of social businesses. Yunus’s “Next Big Idea” offers a pioneering model for nothing less than a new, more humane form of capitalism.

“ Yunus’s ideas have already had a great impact on the Third World, and…hearing his appeal for a ‘poverty-free world’ from the source itself can be as stirring as that all-American myth of bootstrap success.”––The Washington Post

From Grameen Foundation

This is one book that is going on my next book buying list.

Today online we can all make a contribution to Kiva, where lives around the world are changed daily by making a $25 loan, which when repaid can be recirculated. Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.

Kiva is changing lives and empowering id to make a difference not only to their lives, but to the lives of their children and their families.

Today I lent to a group from Cambodia who needed just $125 more to start their new farming cooperative project, by the time I had completed this post they had the full amount of $ 1725. This will be shared by 16 people in the village.

In the past I have lent to individuals who have been working to improve their textile businesses so they can continue to pay for their children’s education. This is so important as education empowers the next generation.

What I like about Kiva is that my whole contribution goes to the project. Funds to run Kiva are raised separatel, a big plus for me.

Head over to Kiva now and support a project.

Please join me? Such a small amount makes such a big difference:)

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