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Mimi thanx. Your question was a relevant remark. I am proud of you that you could get what the pics are about. You know this is really bad about me. Updating pictures takes work and time, thus it contents me…just like “No more work. This is enough!”

Hell yeah, as Mimi, a special friend of mine, just suggested, recently I organized a workshop for 2 women’s groups so that they can identify their problems in the community level and even in the family level. We had around 30-minute brainstorming almost scribbling one problem per card and then we categorized each card with one problem written into a several themes decided by our own. Finally we defined the priority of the problems to solve by questioning: important or less important? difficult or easy to solve?

During keeping asking them questions like “Is [Education] more important than [Security]”? “Now are the problems of [Education] much easier to be solved than [Health]?”, I got some interesting tendency here.

Many say:
1. Problems of [Gender] they face are not that important neither difficult to be solved.
2. Problems of [Health] and [Nutrition] are very easy to be solved.
3. Problems of [Human Rights] are not that important.
4. The interests of the most of them are about their children, the economic situation, and their job (almost all of them are householders).

As for 1, according to them still there are machismos in this area. Some men hit their wives. Recently we had a woman left the women’s club since her husband didn’t understand that she had to leave home to attend a meeting. Still, considering the facts, many women think gender is not that important. As for 2, when I asked them why problems of [Health] are easy, a president of a group responded “since we have free medicines and vaccines. Also diseases are curable.”

As for 3, they didn’t really comment on it when I questioned why. But they just quoted me an example of the government that they don’t really conduct any projects for those who are handicapped and discriminated. This example might explain that the women wanted to say they also don’t really care about the people in a difficult situation. As for 4, although this is my opinion, they only care about things that they see visually. They know they cannot do anything that is not happening to them, though it is very natural for us. You cannot realize it would be important unless it causes you a problem or you know that would do you harm. So they say [Environment], [Gender] and [Human Rights] are less important.

And here one more thing kind of funny. Some wrote “I need more time so to work more.” “I have too much freedom” we categorized those 2 cards to [Time]. When we were discussing about how much or less important it’d be, one said it is less important since time cannot yield profits. Since I was born and grew up in a country where they say "time is money", I couldn’t get what that means.

However, now I see why she commented like that. You see, here has a chronic crisis of unemployment. Even if you have job, you are no paid enough, for example a doctor is paid $300 per month in this country. If you have no job, or if they don’t give you good amount of pay for the time you work, how can you get motivated to work effectively, how can you relate time with money? How can you be careful with time? How can you be responsible for your job?… "time cannot yield profits." It is even better than a remark that Mimi has made.