June 18, 2009- PCInsp Cherry Lou Donato teaches today Gender Awareness and Development to a group of police students undertaking JLC- Junior Leadership Course which is composed of 55 students dominated by male having only 2 female in the group. It is indeed very timely to refresh the minds of the police officers about the importance of having basic understanding of gender and how it affects development, generate appreciation of GAD concepts and principles as tools for development planning, and acquiring knowledge on undertaking GAD mainstreaming, planning and budgeting for local government units.
It is just a one-day class but the knowledge they acquire and the awareness that PCI DOnato imparts to the students will greatly help in the mobilization of the different programs for the welfare of women and ponder, "It is NOT telling women to be like men or edge out men;
It IS telling women and men to expand their social space, so they can freely take on roles according to their individual capacities, not on the basis of SEX.
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