GLOBAL
SISTERS
The following are web
sites sell products from women around the globe. Please support
these women by purchasing their products to help them attain sustainable
economic self-sufficiency and preserve their culture and crafts.
--Janet Kane
The following sites were
submitted by Mildred Johnson.
www.bridgesacrossborders.org/fairtradecrafts.htm
During the summer of 2003, I volunteered as a nurse in the village
of Jaque, Panama, along the Pacific coast in the Province of
Darien/Colombian border. Darien is a region of incredible biological
riches and
limited infrastructure and is home to approximately 3000 Afro-Panamanian
and
Indigenous people. The paintings of Anna Tierra, also known as Ana
Maria Velasquez, are inspired by her work with the above communities.
The
other crafts are made by the indigenous Waunan and Embera communities
along the Darien riverbed.
http://uniteforsight.org/ordercase.php
During the summer months of 2002, I volunteered with a team of other
Americans in the Nuduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana. I was inspired
by the tenacity and determination of women despite their circumstance.
Their cases provides a source of income that, in some cases, to
feed families with 20 plus members.
http://US.oneworld.net
I have no personal connection to the Hesperian group that is one
of the groups on this page. . However, I am inspired by their efforts
to promote homemade remedies of women around the world. I buy the
books and encourage other women to do so. The support is two-fold...personal
health and assisting women who find ways to heal their communities
around the world.
Milldred Johnson: My journey to the United States began
in May of 1983, when I left the Caribbean island of Montserrat to
seek an education in the United States. After working for 12 years
in the nursing arena, I returned to college in 1999 in pursuit of
my lifelong dream for a Liberal Arts education. In May of 2003,
I graduated from Vassar College, with a Bachelor of Arts degree
in Anthropology and Geography.
After studying and writing about the health issues of migrant farmworker
women during my time at Vassar, I then realized that there were
a variety of factors in play contributing to the poor state of women's
health and women's healthcare, not only in the US but world-wide.
My focus shifted to countries across three continents, South and
Central America, Africa and Europe. Hence, over the past five years
I volunteered with women-led NGOs in South Africa, Ghana, New Zealand,
Guatemala, Colombia, and Panama.
I am presently pursuing a Master of Science degree in Organization
Development and Strategic Human Resources with a concentration in
nonprofit management at Johns Hopkins University. Upon graduation
in May 2008, I plan to establish a nonprofit in keeping with my
past experiences in healthcare and nonprofit development. My interest
will be in a cross cultural discipline that will be in keeping with
the political and economic development of women across the nations
as well as those directly linked to the United Nations.
If you have global sisters
and would like to submit web sites of their products, please contact
me at janetkane@verizon.net
©Jung
Society of Washington 2007
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