May 11 2021
#120 The story behind a movement to help girls finish school with Maji-Da Abdi
This episode is unlike any other episode we have had on Dialed In. If this resonates with you I request that you be part of the movement Maji is creating. Together we can bring awareness to this situation and make the world better. This problem is not just in Ethiopia but in many other parts of the world.
>>>Send your two Sentences and Photo to Maji at: associationandelay@gmail.com
YOU ARE INVITED:
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: May 20, 2021 09:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
Topic: EMPOWERING WOMEN ACROSS THE WORLD - THE CONVERSATIONS!
Description: Join us for a powerful conversation about the barrier around the world that prevents women from progressing. Simple things that we may take for granted stop women and girls from getting an education, being able to break out of limiting beliefs and move everyone forward in life.
Together we can make a difference.
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Maji's Bio:
My name is Maji-da Abdi. I was born in Ethiopia. My childhood in Kenya was marked by endless fighting, and millions of Ethiopian refugees fleeting worldwide the dictatorship regime being rife in my beautiful country.
The social context of a world with apartheid and Mandela in jail deeply encouraged my natural outrage against injustice.
After my studies in Canada, I embarked on a nomadic exploration and traveled East in quest of peace, inside and out. I was nurtured by spiritual teachers and retreats, different paths who shared the same intention.
I learned from Sufis and Buddhists masters as well as shamans in the Amazon forest while continuing my social activism in various ways. From covering for CNN the Ethio-Eritrean war from the war front, listening to soldiers and prisoners, to working on documentaries that influenced fairer laws against rape and abduction of girls for forced marriage. I also directed a documentary called The River That Divides, which was on women deported from the war.
I spent more than two decades in engaged cinema where women's rights didn’t roll justly. Driven by this injustice, in 2010, I created an engaged international film festival in Ethiopia called "Images that Matter”
to inspire, train and encourage conscious development. My hope was to increase awareness against female genital mutilations with the premiere of the film "Desert Flower" which included panel discussions with world experts on the topic.
With our current woman President of Ethiopia, Sahle-Work Zewde, dedicated to widening the narrow door for women I became even more motivated to do my part because the percentage of girls finishing their education is still far too low. In part, due to the limiting beliefs in regards to menstruations. I am convinced that this matter is a key issue all over the world that requires more attention.
I now live in Paris with my two wonderful daughters aged eleven and thirteen. Over the last year, I have been researching from my home in Paris, since my heart intensely called me to engage in the cause. To be part of the much-needed voices speaking out against the silence of limiting beliefs in order to bring back the respect of nature and the nobleness of the blood of our life cycles.
Collective intelligence, sharing, and the power of uniting are my biggest passions.
I truly believe that together everything is possible and that in the process of this enriching journey to come, all of us will achieve a human-blood-connection beyond borders.
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