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Reminded me of documentary Solar Mamas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON_NQ1HnRYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON_NQ1HnRYs It is about program in Jordan t

by a-saleh 12y ago

Reminded me of documentary Solar Mamas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON_NQ1HnRYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON_NQ1HnRYs It is about program in Jordan to educate mothers in the poorest regions in basic electrical engineering to allow them to assembly and repair basic solar powered utensils. (Mostly panel->power adapter->battery->light) The most interesting question for me in the film was "Why don't you educate men as well?" with answer along the lines "Any man from here with any marketable skill would run abroad, from his family, mothers will want to do something to feed their children". Then there was the scene, where husband of one of the women in the program tried to force her back home and abandon the "solar" school. I wonder if we could change that attitude about educating women in men like these ...

ars 12y ago
Yah, that organization is extremely misandristic http://www.rd.com/true-stories/inspiring/barefoot-college-bunker-roy/ http://www.rd.com/true-stories/inspiring/barefoot-college-bu... A choice quote: "First we declared that men were untrainable. Men are restless, men are compulsively mobile, men are ambitious, and they all want a certificate to show for their efforts. And the moment you give one of them a certificate, he leaves the village looking for a job in the city." .... "Because the moment you give a woman a certificate, like a man, she’ll see it as a passport for leaving rural areas and going to urban areas to find a job." So basically like a person? And men and women are the same in this regard? But said that way you have no opportunity to bash men. Any organization that tries to destroy the concept of a family unit in the name of education is not a good organization in my book. They seem to be one of the worst of the bunch. Especially since the actual "education" they give is all but worthless - they teach basically nothing, and make the poor women think they have been educated.

by a-saleh 12y ago

ars 12y ago

Yah, that organization is extremely misandristic http://www.rd.com/true-stories/inspiring/barefoot-college-bunker-roy/ http://www.rd.com/true-stories/inspiring/barefoot-college-bu... A choice quote: "First we declared that men were untrainable. Men are restless, men are compulsively mobile, men are ambitious, and they all want a certificate to show for their efforts. And the moment you give one of them a certificate, he leaves the village looking for a job in the city." .... "Because the moment you give a woman a certificate, like a man, she’ll see it as a passport for leaving rural areas and going to urban areas to find a job." So basically like a person? And men and women are the same in this regard? But said that way you have no opportunity to bash men. Any organization that tries to destroy the concept of a family unit in the name of education is not a good organization in my book. They seem to be one of the worst of the bunch. Especially since the actual "education" they give is all but worthless - they teach basically nothing, and make the poor women think they have been educated.