So I`ve been thinking about education a lot. Well, I`m kind of forced to because I have so many things to do for school. It`s just that a lot of the time I forget how fortunate I am to even be able to not to school. Not just post-secondary education but any education at all. Especially since I am a woman.
How many places could I have been born where I would not have had access for education? How many places would have been too expensive for me to go to school? How many places where it would have been illegal for me to even go to school?
This really frustrates me because I feel like there’s nothing I can do to help women have access to education. I looked around online for things I could do.
The one I could afford to do comes from the Miss G___ Project right here in Ontario. I could write to my MPP and ask that Women’s Studies be added to the High school curriculum. An amazing cause. In fact I’ve previously taken part in their Valentine’s Day phone in.
Most of the other ones involved money, much more money than I have. For Example, through Plan Canada I could pay $100 to support literacy training to two women in Rwanda or for $1225 I could give a girl a scholarship in Burkina Faso. I don’t have that kind of money…
Certainly there is something that I can do, that will feel like I am actually making a difference. I just can’t seem to think of anything…
