8,000 Solidarity Clicks

The objective is to collect those 8,000 clicks by this Saturday, March 8, and present them to "Canadian policymakers in charge of aid and development. This gesture will celebrate the essential role of women in international development and underline the impact of gender equality on the health of developing nations."
Follow this link and you'll find yourself at the "Uniterrs" website where you can find enough reading material to keep you busy for hours. Uniterra is "Canada’s biggest international voluntary program, is jointly operated by CECI and WUSC and is present in 13 countries. Uniterra offers citizens and organizations the possibility of making a contribution towards reaching Millennium Development Goals". One click will take you to the stories of eight women helping Uniterra to spread a message of female empowerment and working, each in her own way, to achieve the eight Millennium Development Goals.
Objective 1: Reduce extreme poverty and hunger
Objective 2: Ensure primary education for all
Objective 3: Promote gender equality and the empowerment of women
Objective 4: Reduce infant mortality
Objective 5: Improve maternal health
Objective 6: Fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Objective 7: Ensuring environmental sustainability
Objective 8: Create international partnerships for development
If any of those make sense to you, visit the site and get involved by adding your click to the hoped-for 8,000. Who hasn't got a sister, or an aunt, a grandmother or a female cousin? Who hasn't had a mother? For your own sake, or the sake of one of the women in your life, go and click.