Meet The New Girl
November 14th, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Activism, Child Sponsorship, Children International, Gender, Social Justice
This is Jasmin, the new girl I am sponsoring via Children International (see the flash banner on the right, why don’t you all click and start sponsoring as well?). She’s 7 and lives with her mother in the Dominican Republic, on $70/month.
Jasmin will be the 8th girl I will be sponsoring through CI. I always pick girls with single mothers (and the first person who says it’s sexist gets a whack over the head).
The sponsorship costs me $22/month. That one less book or DVD I’ll buy. And it’s tax-deductible, AND it allows me to lord it over unfortunate others.
Posted in Activism, Gender, Social Justice | 4 Comments »
November 15th, 2008 at 12:30 am
sexist !!!! [ducks]
i sooooo approve, of course. plus, the caribbean is “my” little corner of the world, so thanks for that too.
but $22 for only one book? you obviously don’t haunt friends of the library sales.
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November 15th, 2008 at 7:04 am
How’s the Caribbean your little corner of the world??
And yeah, I know… I have this weird relationship with books where they have to be new and pristine (even AFTER I’ve read them).
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November 15th, 2008 at 10:13 am
As a single mother, I applaud that decision. Although I live in the developed world and had a satisfactory job for most of my kid’s life and now have a really good job, it’s still a struggle. The barriers faced by single mothers in the developing world are phenomenal. And, although I have a son, I also applaud your choice of supporting of daughters. We all know that sexism erects (pun, get it?) all kinds of barriers for women and girls all over the world.
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November 15th, 2008 at 11:55 am
i’ve lived there, worked there, and lived in miami too, which has many more caribbean immigrants than just the cubans you always hear about.
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