Comments on: 16 Days - Day 5: “Sensibilisation” http://blog.theirc.org/2007/11/29/16-days-day-5-%e2%80%9csensibilisation%e2%80%9d/ the blog of the international rescue committee Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:48:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Julia http://blog.theirc.org/2007/11/29/16-days-day-5-%e2%80%9csensibilisation%e2%80%9d/#comment-2239 Julia Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:43:45 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/11/29/16-days-day-5-%e2%80%9csensibilisation%e2%80%9d/#comment-2239 Thank you for bringing all this first-hand information to me and others in order to raise our awareness and understanding of these women's plights. Thank you for taking action on these critical issues. How do we address the men who are causing this pain? How do we stop this violence - get to the root of the issues? Thank you for bringing all this first-hand information to me and others in order to raise our awareness and understanding of these women’s plights. Thank you for taking action on these critical issues. How do we address the men who are causing this pain? How do we stop this violence - get to the root of the issues?

]]> By: Deborah Smith http://blog.theirc.org/2007/11/29/16-days-day-5-%e2%80%9csensibilisation%e2%80%9d/#comment-2238 Deborah Smith Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:19:23 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/11/29/16-days-day-5-%e2%80%9csensibilisation%e2%80%9d/#comment-2238 Tanou, What an amazing and fragile job you are doing. Keep stiring their heart for their own. I believe God has put in the heart of man a heart to protect and cover women but it has been damaged so much and twisted to the point the destortion we see now is horrific. If the true father heart could be stirred in the cheifs what a difference it could make to his people. Keep your eyes open. The greatest of men will always be the meekest. It takes a very strong man to be gentle and cover his people as a father. Always with great hope, Deborah Tanou,
What an amazing and fragile job you are doing. Keep stiring their
heart for their own. I believe God has put in the heart of man a
heart to protect and cover women but it has been damaged so much and
twisted to the point the destortion we see now is horrific. If the
true father heart could be stirred in the cheifs what a difference
it could make to his people. Keep your eyes open. The greatest of
men will always be the meekest. It takes a very strong man to be
gentle and cover his people as a father. Always with great hope, Deborah

]]> By: Klaire http://blog.theirc.org/2007/11/29/16-days-day-5-%e2%80%9csensibilisation%e2%80%9d/#comment-2242 Klaire Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:35:52 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/11/29/16-days-day-5-%e2%80%9csensibilisation%e2%80%9d/#comment-2242 It seems like something is happening....at last. Thank you for your effort and your awesome work! It seems like something is happening….at last.
Thank you for your effort and your awesome work!

]]> By: Cindy Barrilleaux http://blog.theirc.org/2007/11/29/16-days-day-5-%e2%80%9csensibilisation%e2%80%9d/#comment-2241 Cindy Barrilleaux Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:15:26 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/11/29/16-days-day-5-%e2%80%9csensibilisation%e2%80%9d/#comment-2241 These postings and photes by Ann Jones give faces to the problems of gender violence and to the local solutions. I'm stunned at the success Tanou had opening the minds of the chiefs rather than creating defensiveness. There's hope, when people with her skills and IRC's determination combine at the local level. Keep these postings coming. They are opening my eyes. And thanks for the hard work and probably hardships required to bring this to us. Cindy Barrilleaux These postings and photes by Ann Jones give faces to the problems of gender violence and to the local solutions. I’m stunned at the success Tanou had opening the minds of the chiefs rather than creating defensiveness. There’s hope, when people with her skills and IRC’s determination combine at the local level. Keep these postings coming. They are opening my eyes. And thanks for the hard work and probably hardships required to bring this to us.
Cindy Barrilleaux

]]> By: Thomas Sanger http://blog.theirc.org/2007/11/29/16-days-day-5-%e2%80%9csensibilisation%e2%80%9d/#comment-2240 Thomas Sanger Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:10:00 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/11/29/16-days-day-5-%e2%80%9csensibilisation%e2%80%9d/#comment-2240 How hopeful and intriguing to see the affect of "sensibilization" on the elders of the tribes in the Ivory Coast. We are talking education here and the raising of consciousness of the people who hold the power in this region. This is a good thing! I hope that Tanou and others on her team have great success in touching the hearts and minds of these men. How hopeful and intriguing to see the affect of “sensibilization” on the elders of the tribes in the Ivory Coast. We are talking education here and the raising of consciousness of the people who hold the power in this region. This is a good thing! I hope that Tanou and others on her team have great success in touching the hearts and minds of these men.

]]> By: Tom Vitale http://blog.theirc.org/2007/11/29/16-days-day-5-%e2%80%9csensibilisation%e2%80%9d/#comment-2243 Tom Vitale Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:23:31 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/11/29/16-days-day-5-%e2%80%9csensibilisation%e2%80%9d/#comment-2243 I have been thinking about this all morning, on and off. And here is this blog/article about the same thing! The IRC is doing great work and I am grateful. I have been thinking about this all morning, on and off. And here is this blog/article about the same thing!
The IRC is doing great work and I am grateful.

]]> By: Danya http://blog.theirc.org/2007/11/29/16-days-day-5-%e2%80%9csensibilisation%e2%80%9d/#comment-2244 Danya Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:23:08 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/11/29/16-days-day-5-%e2%80%9csensibilisation%e2%80%9d/#comment-2244 It's hopeful to read about this kind of interaction between the modern thinking women and the older thinking tribal chiefs of this area and still they come to some realization that things need to change to better serve all people, not only the men. Sometimes when a person here in the safety of an American home reads these kinds of things it can make them feel hopeless and terribly angry at the behavior of men. It can make them feel that perhaps these men do not care and that they are only thinking of themselves and therefore we are doomed. So when I read that these powerful and articulate and most of all, calm woman is able to get through to these indoctrinated chiefs who hold such power over the rule of the land, over man's newfandangled laws, and that they the chiefs want to do this sort of thing again, I am filled with a small but strong light of hope that I wondered if I was ever going to feel again when reading these kinds of stories. Peace. It’s hopeful to read about this kind of interaction between the modern thinking women and the older thinking tribal chiefs of this area and still they come to some realization that things need to change to better serve all people, not only the men.
Sometimes when a person here in the safety of an American home reads these kinds of things it can make them feel hopeless and terribly angry at the behavior of men. It can make them feel that perhaps these men do not care and that they are only thinking of themselves and therefore we are doomed. So when I read that these powerful and articulate and most of all, calm woman is able to get through to these indoctrinated chiefs who hold such power over the rule of the land, over man’s newfandangled laws, and that they the chiefs want to do this sort of thing again, I am filled with a small but strong light of hope that I wondered if I was ever going to feel again when reading these kinds of stories.

Peace.

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