What Outstanding Women!!!
Thea January 22nd, 2007
Saturday night I watched Oprah Winfrey Show, one of my favorite TV show. The guest stars were two amazing women who struggled for a better live of their country, namely Queen Rania of Jordan and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. The former is the wife of King of Jordan and the later is the president of Liberia, a country which is situated in North West Africa and has ever gone through bloody civil war.
Queen Rania spoke out about her visions. She’s dreaming of eradicating illiteracy in Arab land, especially in Jordan. She’s smart, which was shown once she delivered word by word in the interview, she answered Oprah’s questions cleverly. Besides her dream on improving education quality for Children in Jordan, Queen Rania expects to be able to bridge wide gap between Arab and America. Mutual misunderstanding between those countries, she believes, is the root of the existing wide gap. Therefore, she endeavors to narrow the gap and urges the importance of continuing communication and dialog between Arab and America.
Different from Rania, who becomes a queen sue to her marriage with a King, Ellen Johnson turns in to the first person of Liberia after being elected through democratic election process. Though, both of them are wonderful. Ellen is a well educated woman who went to Harvard for pursuing her master and doctoral degree. Twice, she’s ever been thrown in jail because of her struggle against the absolute and undemocratic power in Liberia. As she had a chance to run for election, she took it and grabbed people’s attention with her visions and missions. Hence, she won the election democratically. Now, she becomes a president of Liberia and the first female president in Africa. It’s definitely a remarkable benchmark of women’s struggle in recent decades.
Both of Rania and Ellen are concerned with education and poverty eradication. They believe there’s a close relationship between education and poverty. The greater access for people to education, the greater opportunity for them to improve the life quality. Education is decisive in any solution of poverty eradication.
Well, I believe, there are still many women out there who do the same things. While in some parts of the world, uneducated and unskilled women remain trapped in poverty, there are other women who are fighting to reach a better life for all, women and men. To build a civilization, it needs involvement of all parties. It means all people, regardless their sex, religion, and social background, have to be involved to contribute. Hence, there’s no excuse any longer to leave women behind in development process.
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