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Do You Know 100+ Million Women are Currently "Missing?" A Park Cities Woman Takes Action

Yes, 100-125 million women have been lost from the world population due to causes that are social and manmade. The Gendercide Awareness Project, gendap.org, founded by UP resident Beverly Hill, calls attention to this under-reported injustice through a large art exhibit at the FIG (Fashion Industry Gallery) in the Dallas Arts District. The exhibit, called 100+ MILLION MISSING, uses 11,000 pairs of handcrafted baby booties, each pair representing 10,000 "missing" women, to demonstrate the scale of female gendercide in a poignant and visually powerful way. The installation fills almost 2,000 square feet. This video, showing just half of it, offers a vivid impression.

The Gendap team collected the 11,000 pairs of baby booties over the last six years. Ninety percent were crafted by at-risk women in 30 developing countries, using materials and motifs traditional to their cultures. Others were created by the Dallas KnitWits, Knit Unto Others (Wilshire Baptist Church), and by high school students across the metroplex — including the Booker T. Washington School for the Arts, The Hockaday School, Ursuline Academy, the Irma Rangel Young Women's Leadership School, and Cedar Hills High School. The exhibit is truly a global collaboration with its heart in Dallas.

The Gendap team also recruited professional artists from DFW to contribute original works that offer tribute, solidarity, hope and a vision for a better world. About 25 paintings and sculptures will be displayed. Some of the artists' responses are deeply personal, drawn from the artist's life experience.

Each year the world loses 3.5 million women and girls. Half of the loss results from the selective termination of female fetuses in countries with a strong preference for sons over daughters. The other half results from female infanticide, gross neglect of female children, maternal death that is unnecessary and preventable, and the inability of older women (particularly widows) to access food and shelter. Collectively this is called female gendercide. Learn more

Visitors who wish to take action can help educate at-risk girls in developing countries. The Gendercide Awareness Project has carefully vetted five schools/scholarship programs for girls in Cambodia, India, Nepal, Uganda, and Guatemala. Educating vulnerable girls is one of the best -- if not the best -- tool we have to end gendercide and the global oppression of women. Learn more at gendap.org

Monday, 30 January 2017