Blog 9: Non-governmental organization (NGO)

The non-governmental issue that I chose to talk about is WYSE which stands for Women and Youth Supporting Each Other. This organization is a national mentoring organization and project of Community Partners. WYSE has been dedicated to strengthening the lives and communities of women and girls of color through a curriculum based, group and one-on-one mentorship program that strives to address all the issues that can contribute to their disempowerment. The mission of WYSE is to provide women and girls with a mentorship experience that enables and inspires strengthened lives and strengthened communities by, 1. Providing middle and high school girls with the resources and support necessary to make informed decisions about relationships, sexual health, their futures and to take leadership roles in creating community change; 2. Providing college women with the skills and insights necessary to become lifelong mentors and advocates for expanded opportunities for women and girls; and 3. Providing a national network of support and friendship as women and girls work toward positive changes in all our nation?s communities. This is a great organization that is definitely worth contributing time, effort, and money towards. There are a lot of young girls who do not have the supporting mentors or role models to look up to. This is a great opportunity to input positive goals and determination in these young ladies lives. To start them on the right track now and informing them on how women are powerful will stick with them on their road to woman hood. This is a gender issue because their are many of young ladies who are being left out and are not getting the proper guidance that they need to become a strong, courageous, independent woman.

Response to reading:
Enloe's article was talking about the sneakers production factories that are all over the world and their working conditions. Most of the major sneaker making factories are overseas and not in the United States where most of the sales are targeted. I believe that these companies take their businesses overseas because many of those people just want to work and are not worried about the working conditions that much. Americans know what they should get and deserve working for someone. The working conditions that are in some of these factories are just out right ridiculous and inhumane. Many of the workers are women and the way that these people treat them should not go unrecognized. These women are just trying to earn a living like anyone else would to support their families by working on a wage that can barely by a drink here in the U.S.. Better working conditions need to be given to these workers or consequences need to be given. Kumar and Ryan's article was mainly about Asian feminism. Chapter 8 in FIFE focuses on global feminism an in this movement we need to still focus on global equality. I believe the part where the white liberal women should be the main leaders in feminism is totally insane. If anything is going to move forward or happen in this movement everyone has to work together if there going to achieve the main goal they have set out to complete. There can't be discrimination going on because that is taking away from the main idea. Other than that issue the chapter had great points.