Welcome to all the Voice of Our Future Applicants!
by Jensine | March 16, 2009 at 2:19 PM
We are overjoyed by the enthusiastic interest in Voices of Our Future... the applicants group currently has 574 members! Because we have so many applicants, we will be removing non-applicants from this group to minimize confusion. Please click here to confirm your participation: http://tinyurl.com/cf5yer
At last you are here! If feels as though we have been waiting for you for an eternity.
When I first had the vision of an online space where women like us could connect, speak out, and create solutions to global problems, many told me it was unrealistic.
How would women from other countries have access to computers? What good would women talking and sharing stories do for the world?
Yet, I knew deep in my bones that it would be like a lightening bolt to hear women’s voices awakening across the planet. I knew you would come. I knew that together we could create a safe space that has soul and power. I knew we could cry, debate, and laugh across any border—but most of all, I knew we would support each other.
So many in the world are suffering. The earth, she is suffocating. And those in power have few answers. The time is now. New voices are needed. Your wisdom is needed. Your courage. Your collaboration. Your poetry. Your clear vision. Your questions. Your doubts. Your fears.
No matter your first language, grammar or spelling, show the world your heart, your life, your community, your nation. Show the world your leadership. Create the future with your words.
The real journey starts this Wednesday. The world can’t wait. Let’s shake the earth!
Love,
Jensine
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"Mama rural"
Glims of hope for Mama Rural
Bear fitted she comes,
Drowned in anguish for landlessness,
Voiceless in a cruel world,
Yet, feeding her oppressors.
She cursed the womb that bore her,
Appreciated with slaps,
And smiles in harasments,
Having no control over her sexuality.
Cursed and chased,
if barren.
Mocked and minimised,
when children fail.
Yea mama,
Shall you have cause to smile?
helpful yet hopeless.
Your womb was blessed,
We'll go for you. Glims of hope mama.
Glims of Hope
May the glims of hope shine down on all the mamas across the world.
Jensine Larsen
World Pulse
Freedom of Expression (Article 19, UN Declaration, 1948)
Ever since i was young, i always knew that there was something that i was meant to do - to change the status quo.
From an early age i knew there was something that needed to be changed. As i grew older i grew in strength and knowledge. I challenged myths, stereotypes, beliefs, attitudes and perception in my family and community. My parents used to say, "you act like a boy. Maybe you were meant to be one." My dad would always say, "We will call you John because you don't want to act like a girl."
I have always been a leader and i stand up for i believe in even if it means challenging the status quo. Perhaps my parents realised this when i was young thus they ran short of ways to tell me of my strenghts hence their popular phrase, "You should have been a boy."
I was good in all subjects and many thought that i would become a doctor. All my teachers were surprised when i decided to study journalism and media studies. Like a doctor, i wanted to heal the world through sharing information and using communication technologies and approaches.
When i first read about the Voice of our Future Applicant, i was excited. I was moved to raise a voice for marginalised and vulnerable people. I instantly knew that this is what i had been waiting for. To use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to raise the Voice of the Voiceless. To challenge how people communicate and to express my ideas and thoughts while manipulating techologies to address the needs of people at grassroots level.
This is FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION at its best because it enables women to seek, receive amnd impart information across frontiers. How best can one desrcibe Article 19 of the UN Declaration.
I can't wait for the real journey to begin. I'm geared to go.
Warm regards,
Gertrude Pswarayi
Heal the world
Gertrude - I too share your passion that communication can heal the world. We are so excited to take this real journey alongside you! Here on PulseWire, the technology is just beginning - and the site is not yet as easy to use for all women as it can be. Surely you have discovered challenges. But together, through listening to our community, we will improve and make this the site of our dreams, making communication and collaboration effortless and life-changing. Let the ideas flow freely!
Love,
Jensine Larsen
World Pulse
CHANGE WE WANT
This was so thoughtful of you. Some people are not aware of what is happening to some other women out here especially those who are advantaged and have no challenges in their lives. Through this forum women can learn of plights of other fellow women and since we are women we would be to understand best what other women are going through and can even come up with ways of helping them .
l really hope and pray that through this site we can make a change. Make sure that women are given the rights that they deserve and that equality is practiced so that everyone can get equal chances in life to do what they desired and lead a happy and comfortable life. Women should be allowed to express the feeling and voice their opinions without fear. We should be seen as people who can also channel their energy to the betterment of the world and really do well.
This is our chance and we can do it. Let's start the journey to changing this world and making it a nice place for all of us especially us women. We have to uplift all of us. For us to succeed we have to be one thing and speak one language. Our freedom.
Let's do it!!
Phylis,
Your words have deeply touched me. I agree, this is our chance. There is no force on earth greater than the power of women connected. We have had our heads down feeling alone for too long, let us raise our heads, see eye to eye and grasp hands for our collective freedom. Together, anything is possible.
Jensine Larsen
World Pulse
We will shake the world
These are encouraging words,i have no doubt in my heart that we are going to shake the whole world through this program. Our voices would come out strongly to reach the world. I want to encourage all of us to do this wholeheartedly, this is our chance,the whole world would see us as people who can work together in unity and that if we are given the chance we can perform, we can make things happen.Lets show them that instead of fighting one another,we can help each other, we can be our sister's keeper.I am ready for this journey and i know we will succeed as we speak with one voice.
Shake the world and more!
Busayo -
Your voice is powerful enough to shake the earth -- and the moon! I believe what you say with all my heart, we are in this together. Thank you for taking this journey with all of the sisters gathered here . . . to rattle the stars!!
Jensine Larsen
World Pulse
It is my pleasure
It is my pleasure taking this journey with others to rattle the stars.Thank you very much for the opportunity
Powerful
Jensine,
Your words are undeniably powerful and, as you referenced, so many passionate and proactive women who have purposefully joined the "Voices of Our Future" group make this initiative a recipe for success!
Still, it is not merely about our voices, but also about the knowledge, emotion, and action that they elicit. The "insider" access that each of us is privy to, as a result of these global perspectives and information sharing, is nothing short of pioneering and is certainly a jumping-off point for making the positive, effective changes that we want to see in our world.
I am reminded of a famous quote by Margaret Mead that seems apt given where we have been and where we will be going.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
With admiration,
Jackie
More than voices
So true! It is how the voices inspire and move us to action that counts. And yet, it is so important that we must first listen and understand women in their own words before we take action - especially in a world where women do not yet have equal voice in any nation. We'll be there every step of the way! Thank you for your sistership on this journey!
Jensine Larsen
World Pulse
Formidable
Hi Jensine your vision was quite formidable.
Once one has a vision and the drive , it is always good to put it in motion no matter the odds. I guess why they say once there is a will,there is always a way. I wonder if at the beginning you had an idea of the magnitude of this vision of your.
Thanks a great deal for this wonderful initiative of yours and for giving each one of us an opportunity to learn from each other. Today the world is being referred to as global village and such forums ascertain that fact.
All i can wish is God's guardians and speed.
Our first assignment
Hey whats going on?I thot we were supposed to get our first assignment today!
Discrimination We Will Remove
When words are inside us male try to dominate us because they think that we will not tell anythings and will do whatever they said. But now the believed has been changed we are rising our voices for our equal opportunities. we have get little but for the equal opportunities we need to continue our voice. one day we will shake the entire world and that is not so far.
With Love and Regards
Sunita Basnet
Asian University for Women
Not far
Yes, Sunita, I hear you.
That one day of equality is so close, i can hear her breathing.
Jensine Larsen
World Pulse
application
hi Jensine,
The link you put up here to confirm our participation is not going through from my end. how else can I do this?
You are confirmed!
Ooluss - Hi there Madame visionary. I just checked the Voices of Our Future Group and you are confirmed!
Simply follow this link for instructions for your first submission. http://www.worldpulse.com/node/8190 . You can also find it on the Voices of Our Future Group. Can't wait to read your words!
Cheers,
Jensine Larsen
World Pulse
My World Is Already Shaking!
Hi Jensine,
Thank you always and always.The entries here are so powerful,so inspiring,so educative...this is the most inspiring journey that i have evr travelled!--Yes-my world is already shaking.
Go,Voices Of Our Future Applicants,go!
Love,
Leah.
Go sisters
Jensine
Thank you for your very powerful words and vision that resonate in me, making me see the reality of when one sees something from within, it can be achieved. It is very exciting to see it coming to pass. All sisters, let's make this happen.
Blessings,
Purity