If you want to feel inspired, and so incredibly thankful for your life/education/opportunities, read Greg Mortenson's "Three Cups of Tea" and his recently published "Stones into Schools." They are fantastic.
These books, and Mortenson's organization the Central Asia Institute, ask what can be possible by giving girls an education and a chance to pursue a profession. In a similar vein, Nicholas Kristof wrote a piece today called "Three Proven Steps to Advance the World's Women," which is also worth a read.
It makes me want to sing that even as men and women are trafficking children and taking away every one of their rights, hopes, and opportunities, there are men and women who are pouring their lives into building the next generation. It's people like Greg Mortenson that make me believe that the balance will come out in the right.
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