Response to Term Project Presentation
I thoroughly enjoyed all the presentations and thought everyone did a great job of getting to the issues in the millennium development goals. The presentation I am choosing to respond to is Melissa and Heidi’s presentation on Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women.
The reason I chose to respond to theirs was that they did something a little different than the other groups; they proposed an actually plan which could be, hypothetically, implemented in order to bring about change.
I thought it was great that they really took this project seriously and thought deeply about the issue and what it meant to empower women and promote gender equality. The proposed plan, Project Unity, with a little more research and thought, addresses the issues which these people face every day. The simple proposal conquers many of the issues of gender equality. It respects the culture of the people while solving the problems of huge class sizes, limited textbooks, and far distances to travel. This is a wonderful start to something which could definitely make a huge impact.
Using more images to help back up the argument may have made it more compelling. Also, I really hope that this idea gets recognized and this group doesn’t just let this project die with the completion of their presentation. The Millennium Development Goals need to be reached by 2015. Is this possible with this proposal? This was something none of the groups really talked about, but I think it is something we all should have had in mind during our proposals.