Voices from the Frontlines
Voices from the Frontlines are first-person reports on what is happening around the world, how it impacts women, and how women are building cultures of peace. We encourage submissions from everyone, including YOU!
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Karin Kloosterman
Tel Aviv, Israel
Only about 100 miles separate the major cities in Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority.
These distances have taken on new significance lately with the outbreak of swine flu, or H1N1. While it might seem that Israelis and Palestinians would have a difficult, if not impossible time working together to diagnose and contain H1N1, that is far from the truth. They are prepared for what could become a pandemic.
In 2005 nine top health officials from Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and nearby Jordan formed a league-the Middle East Consortium …
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Patricia Smith Melton
USA
I spent hours during my youth figuring out the saying, “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.” My mother said this most often when I didn’t want to iron the clothes. Iowa summers are hot, Iowa summers ironing clothes were hotter.
It should be fun to ride a horse, shouldn’t it? Shouldn’t everyone have wishes?
Early clashes between functional reality and visions started early for me. It was seasoned by things in the air, such as feelings of restriction.
It took many years to realize that the energy that ran through …
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Betty Makoni
Zimbabwe
In the first 100 days it looks clear Obama is a leader with a conscience, and a clear one for that matter.
He spoke about his grandmother and many other women struggling to bring food to the table. It is the first time a president in my lifetime has set up a Commission for Women in the statehouse (as we call them in Africa). So the deliverables for women are there. The US Representative to the UN is a woman. Obama sees the power women have to make development real.
I …
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Nadra Mahdi
Sudan
When you love someone, you feel that you miss him
you feel that you need to be close to him
And when you come near him you you can find a fire in your body,
then solubility.
The last stage is swamped.
Then you will be nothing, you are finished completely.
From here your soul is created again.
The new soul you have is created from light
(God is light from skies and earth).
This light soul takes you to different places created from light.
Now you are a creature of light
Everything will change,
Everything will be incredible:
your steps …
