Women Empowered
I keep forgetting to post about the book I helped write with Phil! Well, it's a photography book profiling women in indiegnous communities around the world who are doing extraordinary things to rise above their circumstance. Phil worked on the profiles of these women with the help of CARE International, a simply wonderful organization that tries to solve the problem of world poverty by empowering women.My job was to go through his notes on each woman and pick out the things I thought would be the most interesting/important to relate and write the draft of the "blurbs," as we called them (the 100 word descriptions of each woman that accompanied each picture). I also helped write the short context statements and captions on the pictures and found quotes/statistics for other pages. In the end, I served as an editor as well - it's been really interesting to see the book publishing process from start to, well, middle (and soon finish)! The book will come out on March 7, 2007 for International Woman's Day.
It was an incredibly inspirational project...there were times when i'd lose sight of the big picture and get caught up in the tiny details, but then i'd remember that what i was writing/editing was the story of a woman who stopped genital mutilation in her city, or another who stood up to her rapists, or another who ran a clandestine school for girls during the Taliban rule. I'm so grateful i was able to be part of this prject and can't wait for it to come out!
Here's the URL for the book: http://www.philborges.com/book-women.html Enjoy! | posted by Cheryl, 9/25/2006 02:01:00 PM
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