Women and Education

Interviewing Monica from CARE

by Milei

My group and I went to CARE´s organization in Manhattan and we interviewed Monica on what they did as an organization to help girls and women’s education.

For this fieldwork my group and I stayed in for lunch and recess and watched the Girl Rising movie. Girl Rising is an organization we have partnered up with and they recommended a movie for us to watch. This movie was consisted into nine different stories of girls who told their experiences of being a young girl in this developing countries.

by Milei

For our second meeting with WEP we skyped with the founder of WEP, Zoe Timms. We caught up from our last meeting back when we were at the WEP headquarters in Dumbo. We asked her a lot of questions on why and when she decided to start this organization.

by Stella

We watched the Girl Rising film and learned about 9 different girls stories.

by Piper

We went to the Girl Rising offices and talked to Lauren Manning who has been working in social justice, mainly women’s education, for a while. She talked to us about the organization and the Girl Rising movie. She was able to answer any questions we had and helped us learn a lot of new information about girls’ and women’s education.

by Oni

The Girl Rising Training was a video chat that teachers from all around the world tuned into so they could learn how to use the Girl Rising curriculum.

by Oni

The Women’s March was an organized citywide march that protests policies regarding human rights and other issues, including women’s rights, reproductive rights and many things alike.

by Stella

I went to the women’s march with LREI and marched with so many people.

by Stella

We went to the Girl Rising offices and talked to Lauren who has been working in social justice for a while. She talked to us about the organization and the Girl Rising movie.

by Oni

For this fieldwork, we went to the Girl Rising headquarters and interviewed Lauren Manning. We also began to learn more about the process of producing the movie Girl Rising.

by Milei

My group and I went to meet Lauren Manning, the senior manager of Girls Rising. We had an interview and discussed about what they do to spread the word on women’s and girl’s education rights.

by Milei

In our interview we went to WEP headquarters which is located in the Gowanus. We talked about how we can help the situation and do things like do a fundraiser and host a meeting and talk about the topic of Women’s Education.

by Oni

For our interview Stella, Milei, Piper and I went to 535 Eighth Avenue which was where Monica and her team worked. This Building was very similar to the Bond Gowanus in the way that it was a large building that hosted many different Companys. When we met Monica we began to talk about what she did and how we could help. In comparason to Danielle their oragnization seemed to be more of a charity type of organization.

by Piper

For this fieldwork, we got the amazing chance to be able to interview Danielle Fazzolari from WEP. WEP is an organization working to get women in India into school. Since most of the work actually takes place in India there are only two people that work in the US which makes it so both of them know a lot about the topic of Women’s Education. Danielle was able to answer many of our questions with great detail and help us learn more about this.

by Oni

For our interview with Danielle Fazzolari, we went to the Gowanus in Brooklyn. We went to a building that is called the Gowanus Bond. The Gowanus Bond was a large building whose purpose was for companies and other businesses that wanted or needed a place to work. Inside, the building was very old but it also has some modern aspects like bold solid colored walls. The walkways were dark blue and turquise and would follow a path around the building. When we first walked in we went straight to the front desk and asked for Danielle. As soon as we said that Danielle had walked behind us and had asked if we wanted tea of something to drink. Once we went downstairs and got situated we began to talk about why Danielle was interested in women’s education. From then on we could really tell that Danielle was passionate about what she does. Although we only really ot to talk to Danielle it was still extremely informative.

by Stella

We visited the CARE offices and learned more about what they do to help women in developing countries. Monica told us a little about the history of the organization. We learned a little about the CARE packages they gave to survivors in WWII. Then we went on to discuss the work they do with women and education. CARE works a little differently than the Women’s Education Projects because they work on so many other issues like poverty, gender based violence, and so much more.

by Stella

We went to the WEP, Women’s Education Project, offices and interviewed Danielle Fazzolari who has worked with the organization for around a year and a half. She told us about the work they do in India and how they help women there.