Comments on: The Voice of Iran, and of Women Everywhere http://enlighteneducation.edublogs.org/2009/07/02/the-voice-of-iran-and-of-women-everywhere/ Creating shiny girls . . . Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:15:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Marc http://enlighteneducation.edublogs.org/2009/07/02/the-voice-of-iran-and-of-women-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-678 Marc Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:16:11 +0000 http://enlighteneducation.edublogs.org/?p=402#comment-678 Dear Blogger, We have received 473 nominations for the top 100 language blog 2009 competition. For each category, we have admitted 100 blogs into the voting phase. You are amongst the 100 blogs in the 'Language Teaching' category, congratulations! As stated before, 50% of the final score will be based on user voting. You can promote your blog with the following voting button on your page. Simply add the code to a blog post (similar to embedding a YouTube video) so that your readers can vote for you directly. [You can get the code on our webiste] The voting phase starts today and ends July 28. Winners will be announced July 30. Good luck for the competition! Kind regards, Marc on behalf of the bab.la and Lexiophiles team [http://bab.la] [www.lexiophiles.com] Marc Lütten bab.la GmbH | Baumwall 7 | 20459 Hamburg | Germany Phone: +49(0)40-707080950 http://bab.la/ Handelsregister AG Hamburg | HRB 101207 Geschaftsführer: Dr. Andreas Schroeter, Dr. Thomas Schroeter, Patrick Uecker Dear Blogger,

We have received 473 nominations for the top 100 language blog 2009 competition. For each category, we have admitted 100 blogs into the voting phase. You are amongst the 100 blogs in the ‘Language Teaching’ category, congratulations!

As stated before, 50% of the final score will be based on user voting. You can promote your blog with the following voting button on your page. Simply add the code to a blog post (similar to embedding a YouTube video) so that your readers can vote for you directly.

[You can get the code on our webiste]

The voting phase starts today and ends July 28. Winners will be announced July 30.

Good luck for the competition!

Kind regards,
Marc
on behalf of the bab.la and Lexiophiles team
[http://bab.la]
[www.lexiophiles.com]

Marc Lütten

bab.la GmbH | Baumwall 7 | 20459 Hamburg | Germany
Phone: +49(0)40-707080950 http://bab.la/
Handelsregister AG Hamburg | HRB 101207
Geschaftsführer: Dr. Andreas Schroeter, Dr. Thomas Schroeter, Patrick Uecker

]]> By: Jane http://enlighteneducation.edublogs.org/2009/07/02/the-voice-of-iran-and-of-women-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-677 Jane Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:12:34 +0000 http://enlighteneducation.edublogs.org/?p=402#comment-677 This post really touched my heart Danni .... We are really so blessed living here in OZ. I salute our sisters all over the world who fight for what we consider our birth rights. We must support them and ensure our daughters empower themselves to continue the fight for equal rights, freedoms and power. One organisation I give money to is KIVA (www.kiva.org) - I loan individuals and groups of women, sums of $25US to begin businesses all over the developing world. The money is then repaid to me and I get to loan it again to another group of women doing it for themselves!! You go girls! Interesting stats from Kiva = 82% of the loans are to women, $80 million has been loaned, 98.5% of the loans have been repaid. I now give this as a Christmas present to my family!! What a way to support women. xx This post really touched my heart Danni …. We are really so blessed living here in OZ. I salute our sisters all over the world who fight for what we consider our birth rights. We must support them and ensure our daughters empower themselves to continue the fight for equal rights, freedoms and power. One organisation I give money to is KIVA (www.kiva.org) – I loan individuals and groups of women, sums of $25US to begin businesses all over the developing world. The money is then repaid to me and I get to loan it again to another group of women doing it for themselves!! You go girls!

Interesting stats from Kiva = 82% of the loans are to women, $80 million has been loaned, 98.5% of the loans have been repaid. I now give this as a Christmas present to my family!! What a way to support women. xx

]]> By: Francesca http://enlighteneducation.edublogs.org/2009/07/02/the-voice-of-iran-and-of-women-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-676 Francesca Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:46:47 +0000 http://enlighteneducation.edublogs.org/?p=402#comment-676 Danni, your words are a real reminder for me that even though equal rights for women have come so far in our country, the fight for equality is far from over. As a woman with many rights and resources, I feel inspired to take some action to help women around the world who still have greater battles to fight. We must believe that even the smallest effort can make a difference. When my grandmother migrated here, she left behind a town in the south of Italy destroyed by earthquake. Soon after arriving here she was fortunate enough to have been given the opportunity to become a seamstress for a clothing manufacturer. She has often told me that the right to work and earn a wage gave her a sense of accomplishment, financial independence and empowerment. Inspired by both your blog and my grandmother’s history I bought a sewing machine and the appropriate training in tailoring and business management for a widow in Afghanistan today (through the Mahboba’s Promise organisation). Just by visiting the many organisations you have listed I have realised there are so many easy, small and different ways to help empower women worldwide, this way just resonated with me. Thank you for inspiring me! Danni, your words are a real reminder for me that even though equal rights for women have come so far in our country, the fight for equality is far from over. As a woman with many rights and resources, I feel inspired to take some action to help women around the world who still have greater battles to fight. We must believe that even the smallest effort can make a difference. When my grandmother migrated here, she left behind a town in the south of Italy destroyed by earthquake. Soon after arriving here she was fortunate enough to have been given the opportunity to become a seamstress for a clothing manufacturer. She has often told me that the right to work and earn a wage gave her a sense of accomplishment, financial independence and empowerment. Inspired by both your blog and my grandmother’s history I bought a sewing machine and the appropriate training in tailoring and business management for a widow in Afghanistan today (through the Mahboba’s Promise organisation). Just by visiting the many organisations you have listed I have realised there are so many easy, small and different ways to help empower women worldwide, this way just resonated with me. Thank you for inspiring me!

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