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GRANDMOTHER POWER: A GLOBAL
PHENOMENON
The Book - The Concept - The
Celebration
By Paola Gianturco
Today's
grandmothers--younger, healthier, better educated, and better off than
grandmothers have ever been--have launched a new international grandmother's
movement.
This unheralded
grandmothers' movement is changing the world. Insurgent grandmothers are using
their power to fight for a better future for grandchildren everywhere. And they
are succeeding. Grandmother Power profiles activist grandmothers
in fifteen countries on five continents who tell their compelling stories in
their own words.
Grandmothers in Canada,
Swaziland, and South Africa collaborate to care for AIDS orphans. Grandmothers
in Senegal convince communities to abandon female genital mutilation.
Grandmothers in India become solar engineers and bring light to their villages
while those in Peru, Thailand, and Laos sustain weaving traditions.
Grandmothers in Argentina teach children to love books and reading. Other
Argentine grandmothers continue their 40-year search for grandchildren who were
kidnapped during the nation's military dictatorship. Irish grandmothers teach
children to sow seeds and cook with fresh, local ingredients. Filipino
grandmothers demand justice for having been forced into sex slavery during
World War II. Guatemalan grandmothers operate a hotline and teach parenting. In
the Middle East, Israeli grandmothers monitor checkpoints to prevent abuse and
the UAE's most popular television show stars four animated grandmothers who are
surprised by contemporary life. Indigenous grandmothers from thirteen countries
conduct healing rituals to bring peace to the world.
All author royalties will be
donated to the Stephen Lewis Foundation's Grandmothers to Grandmothers
campaign, which provides grants to African grandmothers who are raising AIDS
orphans