Bravo lady Christine Munduru!!! We just need a paradigm shift-both men and women of WestNile.
Enosh MD ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 22 April, 2010 12:00:09 Subject: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 20, Issue 11 Send WestNileNet mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of WestNileNet digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: State of Affairs (christine munduru) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:52:21 -0700 (PDT) From: christine munduru <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] State of Affairs To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear all, I appreciate all the work you are doing and encourage you to continue. I concur with Wendy, but I think it is not solely the problem of the ladies , or even the men that the women are inactive/passive but the patriachy status which is adored too much especially by Westnilers, men and women inclusive. How many of our brothers in this net regard and treat their wives the way they would want to be treated? If our brother treats his wife like a first class citizen, we say he is "controlled" by this woman, may be even biwitched, a common term used which I dont subscribe to. Therefore he should treat her like second class citizen and he, the first class that is when we say he is a man. If a man has no regard for his wife, it is very unlikely that he will do the same to any other woman. It is unfortunate that we ladies also promote this alot and we feel we are second class citizens and any woman who stands up also becomes an enemy to fellow women. This ideology has shut up women. In this scenario tell me which woman wants to stand up and oppose the wind, even if the lady has excellent ideas, it doesnt matter. It must come from a man to be considered worthy. Some of us have got names for doing this, which for me is an honor and it gives me more energy. But most ladies choose to "remain feminine" and therefore passive, to avoid risks of being labelled, let the men "who know" take lead and women, the "flock" which is exactly what makes our Westnile community happy. It needs a deliberate effort by both men and women to bring women to leadership. Otherwise, we are comfortable in our back seats. I am sure even if ladies were present at the time of formation of committees, nobody, including the ladies, would have voted for a lady as committee head. Perhaps the ladies are just members as usual within the committees. Can we know the membership of the committees? Thanks Munduru ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, April 20, 2010 10:13:47 AM Subject: RE: [WestNileNet] State of Affairs Thanks Caleb, However, what happened to the Ladies of Westnile? I don’t see any active participation/role that they are taking to champion some of these committees? I kind of feel our role is too passive. When do these committees get formed? How do we who have just recently got access to the [email protected] network get actively involved minus only giving contributions on email etc. Regards, Wendy. From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Caleb Alaka Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 9:42 AM To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile Subject: [WestNileNet] State of Affairs Ladies and Gentlemen, We are not dead but we are seriously doing work. We gave ourselves time for each committee to accomplish its assignement and in due course you will get a volcanic result. For avoidance of doubt we have the following adhoc committees which are in advance stages of tackling its tasks. The Public University in West Nile committee headed by Eng. Okuni Patrick, the Father Ruffino Educational committee headed by Amb. Achema Harold, the Ngaka Effort on Rural adult literacy program, a committee on documentation of our affairs headed by myself. A West Nile Night committee headed by Afema Robert, and the inauguration committee headed by Charles Dra-ecabo. ________________________________ NOTE: This e-mail message is subject to the MTN Group disclaimer see http://www.mtn.co.ug/Legal/Email-disclaimer.aspx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20100421/dddb1181/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list [email protected] http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet End of WestNileNet Digest, Vol 20, Issue 11 *******************************************
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