Deep Grief

I agree with you Elizabeth, I am that some one who have walked that path.

“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

Alphabe-Thursday letter J for jumbo sale

 
 A jumbo sale to raise money for Africa,
http://jennymatlock.blogspot.co.nz/

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sign the petition "Stand with me and the Nigerian girls:

I just signed the petition "Stand with me and the Nigerian girls: show the world we are #StrongerThan those who deny girls an education" on Change.org.

It's important. Will you sign it too? Here's the link:

http://www.change.org/petitions/stand-with-me-and-the-nigerian-girls-show-the-world-we-are-strongerthan-those-who-deny-girls-an-education?recruiter=1667412&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition

Thanks!

ann

Stand with Malala

 


 


Stand with Malala

Malala Day celebrates the birthday of Malala Yousafzai, the girl who was shot for bravely defying the Taliban and attending school. This year, she has traveled to Nigeria to see the plight of girls, like her, in great danger for simply going to school.

Malala wants to use Malala Day this year to ask everyone to raise their voices to say: we are #strongerthan those who use fear, intimidation and violence to stand in the way of every girl and boy's basic right to an education.


Malala epitomizes strength  to overcome oppression. Just like Nadine in my book, my book is a fiction, but based om many factual scenarios.

I take you to a journey of modern day oppression.

This story traces the life of Nadine, a girl born to Indian parents. It embodies the issues of a Kiwi girl, Nadine, growing up in conflicting cultures and getting lost in her environment.

Nadine grows up to overcome her problems to help women who suffered from physical and mental violence, domestic violence, rape, pornography, swinging, incest, bullying, sex with minors, sex slavery and human trafficking.

http://annchinchan.blogspot.co.nz/2014/05/cry-of-oppressed-women.html

Camille Yahm‎ comment on Cry of Oppressed Women


I am not familiar with this book, Ann, but would like to be! This is a very significant topic in our world today, but women have been oppressed in various cultures down through the centuries. It must end.

child pornography

In this book, I dwelt with child pornography and here is a case that is real.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11288582

Andrew Jonathan Johnson, 44, appeared in Christchurch District Court for sentencing on Thursday after pleading guilty to four charges of possessing objectionable publications.
Internal Affairs and police caught Johnson accessing objectionable material on internet file-sharing websites on two separate occasions over a fortnight in October 2012.
Computer equipment seized from his Palmerston North home contained encrypted movies and images of underage girls in explicit sexual poses and acts.
Judge Tony Couch ordered Johnson to undergo a WellStop programme and not to access the internet unless for "legitimate employment purposes".
He also ordered the destruction of the objectionable images

Auckland women's centre.

They host free coffee groups for single mums. Nadine and Megan are fictitious characters who work this this organisation. Isabelle was a single mum.

end homelessness

My friend Ngarimu Blair did this  couple of years ago and I supported him.

 

http://bigsleepout.org.nz/

 

Help end homelessness. Be part of the solution.

On the 3rd of July a bunch of influential Kiwis will take a public stand against homelessness at the annual Lifewise Big Sleepout. They will be stripped of their creature comforts, exposed to the elements and given first hand insight into what it means to ‘sleep rough’.
This night aims to raise critical awareness and funds for Lifewise’s highly successful ‘no band aids’ approach to homelessness. Many lives have been and will continue to be turned around as a result.
This year (our fifth event) we’re putting a spotlight on youth homelessness. After all young people (up to 24 years of age) make up half of New Zealand’s homeless population!