Crazy volunteer stuff....?????

I'm involved in a lot of different volunteer type stuff. Because I'm not fluent in Arabic, it's mostly fundraising kind of stuff at this point. Well......

Via a link from a buddy, I came across a YouTube video posted by AlJazeera news (English language). It talks about a shelter in the region for battered women. According to the report (sorry I'm not publishing the link for various reasons....), the shelter depends on private donations to stay open, and may be one of the only ones of its kind in the region (not sure if that last part is true). Thus, my buddy giving me the link. To help or not to help, that is the question.

Ok....fine. My involvement or non-involvement is a whole other story. Here's what was interesting....

All around that particular news report, there were uploaded videos on YouTube that looked dodgy to me to say the least. These other videos could be just women having fun or were these videos of women looking for employment in the oldest profession next to motherhood? {I am most certainly not endorsing these types of home made movies!}

Hmmm.....

What do you think? Do you think that the region (and I really do mean region not specifically my current country of residence) has need for dialogue on issues that affect women?

Peace.