12 May 2009
Water Buckethead
Posted by admin under: Outings .
There was a Girl Scout event in Iowa to engage young ladies with various activities. They met a beauty queen, climbed a rock wall, but the one part of the story that caught my attention was the one that tried to get girls to understand their sisters in Africa and what they go through.
Students from the University of Iowa Global Health Club taught the girls about what it is like for girls their age, and even younger, in parts of Africa, who can’t go to school because they spend three to four hours a day carrying water.
“Wouldn’t you rather go to school and learn new things rather than carry water every day?” asked Anthony Berger, a UI junior majoring in biochemistry.
Club members asked girls to try holding a bucket on their head for a short amount of time, filled with one-tenth the amount of water girls in Africa have to carry, part of an awareness project called Be Hope to Her.
Alizaya Silker, 7, of Epworth, had only one word to describe the experience — “heavy.”
That’s what I’m talking about. After something like that you just tell you daughter that if she doesn’t study you’ll simply move to Africa where she doesn’t need an education. Then hand her a bucket.
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