Event 2

Name: IWIN (International Women in Need)
Date: December 3, 2007
Location: Women’s Center


This event was planned to discuss the 2007-2008 IWIN project. This year’s project is to raise money to purchase a power mill for a village in Kenya. This mill would eliminate much of the manual work that the women have to do to grind their corn. Corn is a very important staple in the lives of Kenyan families and having a mill to grind it would make things go much faster and more efficient. The hope of IWIN is to donate this mill to the women’s group in the village and then they can begin a small business of grinding the corn. They are going to do this through fundraising events.
This group and fundraising event is strongly connected the ideas that we discussed throughout this course. Their main objective is to help the women in the village eliminate some of the work that they are required to do. All the corn grinding is the women’s responsibility because of the roles that their society places on them. The IWIN organization is working to help create a more equal society for the women.
I found this informational meeting to be very interesting. I think that this is an organization that I will definitely volunteer for in the future. These ideas that they have planned and the things that they want to do to improve this village in Kenya aresomething that is obviously needed and will help make these women lives better.