INSTAGRAM REPOST - Original Post "𝑳𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒚." ----------- 𝕀𝕥'𝕤 𝕠𝕟 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕙𝕠𝕨 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕔𝕖𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕚𝕥. . . 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿: . 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗨𝗧𝗘 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲, 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗳𝘀. (𝗜𝗴𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝘆 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝘀) . Art & edits by @yogeshmedz . I've never raised my voice until Disha's incident took place, but things did not stop there and it's known fact that unless we change nothing is going to change. Many cases are registered and they are still in pending. Only two recent cases came into LIME LIGHT, still there's no justice. I know that alone I cannot bring the change but I believe one voice is enough resonating to the millions. We all men do have demonic thoughts in us but we REAL MEN know our LIMITS. I admit it, I do have demonic thoughts in my mind but I know my limits as well... I started seeing them (every women) with RESPECT and that's the only thing helped me to defeat those demonic thoughts. It comes with practice. Consent is key. "Say, I can & I will change instead of saying I cannot" - It goes for both men & women (no discrimination). We see women as goddess only during DURGA PUJA not otherwise, changing our mindset will only bring the CHANGE. So, we should imbibe positive thoughts in every mind if we need to bring the change. Therefore, I decided to dedicate this insta account to all women out there and to make everyone understand about REAL WOMEN by creating inspirational posts about them. I know I cannot understand them completely but as a man I will do my best to understand because I do understand my MOTHER very well! Thank You!

Written by Savdy Doeung, Vocational Training Coordinator In some societies, women are still discriminated on their gender. They are not given the same right as men. Women are still paid less, expected to cook, clean etc. Women are still strict by their culture and family. As women can’t go out at night or with the guys. Some Cambodian women are determined by their parents or husband. They still not allowed women to work or study far away from their home because they believed that women are weaker than men and some husbands get jealously. In additionally, some women in Cambodia married in young age and some also forced to married by their parents. Women’s empowerment is really needed in the societies. It’s so important for women self-esteem and also for societies. Empowering women is to give women the right. Women can have equal right to participate in education, society, economy and politically. Women can involve in society as they are glad to choose their religious, language, work and other activities. Women are allowed higher education as men. They can go with the high-level of education, finish their classes, learn the skill and study whatever they want. Women also can join the politically as they have right to vote and do some activities in political. Women’s empowerment is a part to encourage women to feel strong by telling them that they can do everything that they want to do. Women can work outside their home, have opportunity to make up their mind. Women are not depended on men. They can earn money to support their family by working through their abilities. As some women are not confident to work in a hard condition or a high position because they still determine that it’s not women’s job. Empowerment helps to reduce in domestic violence due people promote and give the value to women. Women are not abused by any factors such as sexual abuse, emotion abuse and physical abuse. These day women are achieving high-level job just as man do. Some women are promoted to become a president, leader, chief of commune and other high-level positions. And there are many women now are participating in society, politically, education and economically. Women who attend the sewing program at HHA are really empowered. HHA empowers them through giving them skill and also teach them life skill lessons. They have learnt a lot from us for 10 months. All of them are from very poor family. Some of them are not empowered by their family or husband due they always claim that women are better not to study more or work outside their home. But they still fight and join us this program. As the result of Empowering by HHA, those women are really change in their life. They can earn more money to support their family, they can get a happiness in their family as they don’t have domestic violence and they have learnt other lessons related to their living. I have changed a lot since I started to join sewing program at HHA. I have a skill now, so I can find more money to support my family. There are many people criticized on me such as my neighbors and my relative when I joined this program, because they think that it’s useless. I believe myself and I am empowered by HHA. I am very thankful to HHA that give me this opportunity. – Lin, our sewing student said.