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If they are to achieve gender equality,/women must work to help themselves. Graduates of the school/are beginning to share their knowledge and training/with other women in the community. Some women have started small businesses/growing vegetables to protect their families/from unstable cacao prices. Rosine and Yaoua,/both graduates of the school,/lead a women’s society/to help girls get an education. Yaoua says,/“Women don’t have to be behind men. We are worthy too.”
The project/to help the invisible women farmers of Côte d’Ivoire/has gone global. In Latin America,/Fairtrade opened leadership schools/in Guatemala and El Salvador. In Asia,/Fairtrade also opened schools/in Indonesia and India in 2019. The goal is to promote empowerment/and raise awareness of human rights.
I began by asking you/to think about where chocolate comes from. Then we listened/to the voices of the invisible women cacao farmers/in Côte d’Ivoire. That led to the question/of how to overcome the gender gap.
Now,/let’s think about our own lives and societies. How much have we accomplished/and how much more do we have to do/in order to close our own gender gap?
If they are to achieve gender equality,/women must work to help themselves. Graduates of the school/are beginning to share their knowledge and training/with other women in the community. Some women have started small businesses/growing vegetables to protect their families/from unstable cacao prices. Rosine and Yaoua,/both graduates of the school,/lead a women’s society/to help girls get an education. Yaoua says,/“Women don’t have to be behind men. We are worthy too.”
The project/to help the invisible women farmers of Côte d’Ivoire/has gone global. In Latin America,/Fairtrade opened leadership schools/in Guatemala and El Salvador. In Asia,/Fairtrade also opened schools/in Indonesia and India in 2019. The goal is to promote empowerment/and raise awareness of human rights.
I began by asking you/to think about where chocolate comes from. Then we listened/to the voices of the invisible women cacao farmers/in Côte d’Ivoire. That led to the question/of how to overcome the gender gap.
Now,/let’s think about our own lives and societies. How much have we accomplished/and how much more do we have to do/in order to close our own gender gap?