VOF Week 4: (One globe, a people, a voice)

When at one point I attended a job interview to be a community information volunteer in my home district, one of the numerous questions was ‘why do you want to be a volunteer yet there is no guarantee of payment?’ I heard my inner self scream that it is not about money but about seeing an empowered community; an informed community that is able to make sound decisions based on knowledge. To me, nothing mattered more than a community that has shunned ignorance and that has chosen to engage its people in self awareness.

For I envision a world full of empowered people, the one where independence prevails and where equal opportunities are open to every living member, despite gender, race, religion or any other distinguishing factor. A big globe where its people have transversed any existing boundaries and are able to communicate as brothers and sisters… a big world turned in to a global village.

And this is part of the reasons why I want to be a pulse wire correspondent; to be part of the envisioned transformation. To create awareness and share information towards achieving one globe with equal people. To be able to empower the minority groups of the society, women included, in to majority groups. For a long time, a woman and her world has been sidelined and regarded as the ‘weaker sex.’ The level of weakness has never been determined though. So I believe that through my voice on pulse wire, the woman will be able to reclaim what had been grabbed from her long ago out of sheer ignorance.

I believe that through my voice, I will be able to empower and influence women all over the world to think outside the box and walk above the veil of suppression and silent submission created by our society. With pulse wire’s unique feature of web 2.0, there is a guarantee of reaching multiple audiences just by a click. This is unlike most mainstream media where one is faced with so many constraints and your work being published is a distant dream.

Being a pulse wire correspondent will also give me a chance to be a mouth piece for the voiceless. In my country Kenya for instance, being poor is almost an automatic sin and so the media only serves the interests of the moneyed. So where does this leave the bottom billion people who live from hand to mouth, leave alone accessing the media to pass their grievances? In fact, those in power use these masses to advance their interests. But where does this leave the interests of the poor and the vulnerable?

It is only citizen journalists who can fearlessly point out the societal ills boldly. And by the way, women being part of the minority groups have suffered silently. I believe that it is the responsibility of citizen journalists like myself to shout from forgotten corners of the world to impact change. As a representative of these group from a section of the world, I believe I will be able to expose, condemn, provoke and share information with women of the globe all aimed at empowering the woman and giving her back her freedom.

I need that chance to recreate the divine woman, advance global media and empower the world.