The Green Tara Project is what I have named my journey to empower women and girls. \u00a0It began as a feeling, in 2009, when I happened to come across\u00a0\u00a0Nicholas Kristof’s NYT column about Assiya Rafiq. \u00a0Her harrowing story, her determination, her courage, and her will to stand up against overwhelming odds just floored me. \u00a0And then I followed the threads: \u00a0from Assiya Rafiq to Mukhtar Bibi; from Mukhtar Bibi to Half the Sky; from Half the Sky to Ruchira Gupta; and so on and so on. \u00a0Before I knew it, I had read about half a dozen women, equipped with nothing more nor less than their brains and spirit who were living to make a difference, not for money or fame, but because it was the right thing to do. \u00a0I wanted in. \u00a0And the more I read, the more ideas I got. \u00a0And The Green Tara Project was hatched.<\/p>\n
My ultimate aim for The Green Tara Project is to be a people\/training\/ guidance\u00a0resource focusing on self defense, karate, and cognitive behavior for any woman’s organization to supplement their empowerment activities for at-risk women and girls. There is a Triad that operates in my own life and has led me to heal my own wounds. \u00a0I strive to share what I have learned with women and girls who live in, or have been rescued from, extreme risk environments so that they may find the strength within themselves to gain self confidence and self esteem that will power them throughout their lives.<\/p>\n
My trip to India is the first step in educating myself firsthand on the issues that women\u2019s organizations face when working with a victimized population, on what has worked, what hasn\u2019t, and explore the ways that a program\u2019s success in empowerment is actually measured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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