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	<title>- Re: Recommendation: Sustain attention to girl child education in Fragile states</title> 
	<link>http://www.politiek2015.nl/forum/index.php?forumpage=replies&amp;topicid=1072</link> 
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	<![CDATA[ OVERCOMING THE BARRIERS IN GIRL CHILD EDUCATION IN MAASAILAND, KENYA
- Increasing enrollment - Through volunteer network of community advocates for girls education, girls who will never have an opportunity to go to school are identified and enrolled in schools. Equally important is sustaining the number of girls who are already enrolled in school that would forced to drop out against their wishes because of cultural, physical or economic reasons.
 - Enrolling in boarding schools - Physical barriers like long distsnces to school are removed and cultural barriers are weakened by placing girls in boarding schools. Boarding schools also give girls a save place to escape the rentless presure for early marriage and motherhood in an enviroment supportive of girls education. In adittion. boarding schools provide regular nutritional meals, healthcare, structured time for learning and a housing option for girls who have reached puberty, and by Maasai traditions, can no longer live in the same house with their fathers.
- Ensuring quality education - Improving rural schools infrastructure like adequate classrooms, providing enough desks, schools meals,ensuring enough and motivated teaching force etc, will create a conducive learning environment that will allow rural schools kids to compete with the more sophisticated  and well funded urban public and private schools in Kenya.
- Paving the way for economic independence - Supporting college and university education for bright needy students who are forced to cut short their education ambition due to lack of resources.
- Empowering rural women - Organize workshops and exposure meetings for rural women who have no formal education, focusing on practical skills like Education, health care, nutrition to improve the family health and win their support in education.
The benefits to society of educating women are well documented and include lower birth rates, better health practices, lower infant mortality, fewer teenage pregnancies, and greater economic well being, not only for women, but the entire community in which they live. THIS IS TRUE IN KENYA, THIS IS TRUE IN EVERY CULTURE WORLDWIDE. ]]> 
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	<pubDate>2010-07-27</pubDate> 
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	<title>- Re: Recommendation: Sustain attention to girl child education in Fragile states</title> 
	<link>http://www.politiek2015.nl/forum/index.php?forumpage=replies&amp;topicid=1072</link> 
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	<![CDATA[ CULTURAL, PHYSICAL AND ECONOMIC BARRIERS TO THE GIRL CHILD EDUCATION IN MAASAILAND, KENYA
The cultural, physical and economic barriers that combine to deny education to Maasai Girls in Kenya are numerous and taken together, almost impossible for all except for the most determined girls to overcome. The barriers include: 1.Economic incentives for early marriage  2. Family and peer pressure for early marriage  3. Fear of early pregnancy  4. Walking distances to and from school 5.The nomadic Maasai culture.
Like most poor women in African nations, Maasai women are destined to live a life with limited choices.More than eighty percent of Maasai women will never have a single day of formal education. They will never learn to read or write, or speak a language other than their native "Maa". Not one in ten will reach the eighth grade. All but the most defiant will be "circumcised" at the age of twelve or thirteen and soon afterwards married to a man her father chooses. She will never be allowed to divorce, except in the most egregious cases of physical abuse, and will never allowed to marry again, even if the husband her father chooses is an old man who dies when she is still in her teens. She will be one of her husband's multiple wives, and will have many children regardless of her health or ability to provide for them. she will rise early everyday to milk cows, and spend her day walking miles to water holes to launder clothes and get water, and to gather wood to carry back home. If she is lucky, she will have a donkey to share her burden. She will live a life with few physical comforts, depended on a husband and family she did not choose. ]]> 
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	<pubDate>2010-07-27</pubDate> 
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	<title>- Re: No condom is No to intercourse</title> 
	<link>http://www.politiek2015.nl/forum/index.php?forumpage=replies&amp;topicid=18</link> 
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	<![CDATA[ This topic is very interesting. Hearing different views from different people basing on different spectrums. The messages about "Condoms" have been inculcated in the minds of people. Sometimes it is very surprising to see young women and men having sex near billboards written "No sex before marriage" "HIV/AIDS kills", "Say NO to Sex" and so on and so forth.

If we use a slogan such as "No condom is No to intercourse" In my opinion it means we are encouraging the youths to engange themselves in active sex.

People will be encouraged to be having sexual intercourse any time they feel like provided they have a condom. In this case it means we are promoting and encouranging a promiscuity society, a society that will be embedded with sex in their brains and minds hence continuity of rape cases.  

I suggest that the solution to this "mindset" is to teach people about good behavioural change, to tell people to build the control mechanisms in their bodies so that they develop self-control. 

Regards

misheckmutuzana@yahoo.com ]]> 
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	<pubDate>2010-07-25</pubDate> 
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	<title>- Re: We need men! - update</title> 
	<link>http://www.politiek2015.nl/forum/index.php?forumpage=replies&amp;topicid=1012</link> 
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	<![CDATA[ I agree with all the views of my coleagues.In my own opinion i think we need both men and women to partner in developmental issues. Some women are influential, pragmatic, intelligent and can drive the economy of a country. Whilst in other circles of life we see men failing to run and drive the economy of the country but great women have stood firmly and contributed fully to the economies of their country.

Some men also have done tremendous jobs  in improving and driving the wheels of the economy of their countries. So in order to balance in he developmental issues of our countries we need both men and women who are not egocentric, those who can sacrifice for the benefit of their nations.

Regards

misheckmutuzana@yahoo.com ]]> 
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	<pubDate>2010-07-25</pubDate> 
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	<title>- What can you say about Philippines?</title> 
	<link>http://www.politiek2015.nl/forum/index.php?forumpage=replies&amp;topicid=1307</link> 
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	<![CDATA[ To all the members of this organization, what can you say about Philippines?

from the diff. topics:

   -  what is the 1st impression/vision/image that could illustrate into your mind when you hear the country named Philippines?

   -   Or we say, what people are Filipino's anyway? ]]> 
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	<pubDate>2010-07-24</pubDate> 
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	<title>- (ISO) standards & development corporation</title> 
	<link>http://www.politiek2015.nl/forum/index.php?forumpage=replies&amp;topicid=1306</link> 
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	<![CDATA[ First published in 1987, the ISO 9000 series of standards enable an organization to set up a quality management system and supply products and services that are free of non-conformities and aim to achieve customer satisfaction. I had a talk with a entrepreneur in my country who had some doubts about "going ISO".He mentioned the amount of money his company  would need to get certified and asked if his company would "succeed or not " if he should not apply for the standards, especially when he dreams of competing with western companys..

What should I tell him? How can we, dutch and non dutch , stimulate entrepreneurs in developing countries to cope with this issue? Lets also think about for instance the coffee farmers and the UTZ certification ? 


source: www.maharashtradirectory.com

Greetings from warm Sunny Suriname
Marciano B. Dijksteel ]]> 
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	<pubDate>2010-07-16</pubDate> 
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	<title>- Re: World Climate can be saved.</title> 
	<link>http://www.politiek2015.nl/forum/index.php?forumpage=replies&amp;topicid=1101</link> 
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	<![CDATA[ Yup. They have to take a part in climate change, because this world for tommorow, to our familiy, so let's save the world.

Actions start from the smallest things. ]]> 
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	<pubDate>2010-07-14</pubDate> 
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	<title>- Re: World Climate can be saved.</title> 
	<link>http://www.politiek2015.nl/forum/index.php?forumpage=replies&amp;topicid=1101</link> 
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	<![CDATA[ The industial countries and those having  growing populations have to come to an agreement on how to save the climate. The world cannot suffer because economic interests. How much would be the cost of reinitialising the normal climate? We have to think twice. ]]> 
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	<pubDate>2010-07-09</pubDate> 
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	<title>- Re: Comparing the Dutch political system to your country</title> 
	<link>http://www.politiek2015.nl/forum/index.php?forumpage=replies&amp;topicid=1283</link> 
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	<![CDATA[ Read Sarwar's essay about the comparison Netherlands-Afghanistan:
http://www.voiceover2015.nl/weblog.php?id=136 ]]> 
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	<pubDate>2010-07-09</pubDate> 
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	<title>- Re: We need men! - update</title> 
	<link>http://www.politiek2015.nl/forum/index.php?forumpage=replies&amp;topicid=1012</link> 
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	<![CDATA[ For the positive change of this World,men and women are called to combine their strengths. What threats the woman's stability threats too the man's stability. The world cannot progress if the men and the women are not working in a complementary manner. ]]> 
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	<pubDate>2010-07-09</pubDate> 
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