St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, known for her Catholic boarding school, love of books, and commitment to education, that if she were still here today, she would want to help the 88% of young girls and women in Afghanistan who don't have a good education and are not given the right to go to school. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton would have that belief abolished no matter the cost. So, Lord, please bless all those women denied a good education, and hope one day that they will have better life and freedom. We ask that children and young girls who live in a world where schooling is disliked for them, that in the near future that will change. We pray to The Lord, Amen.
Jessie
Malala Day, July 12, is a great day to remember Elizabeth Seton who dedicated her life to God and the education of young woman. Elizabeth Ann Seton didn't have social media, but we do and with current technology we can make a difference the way she might have done today, and as the courageous 17 year old Malala is doing.
"world leaders have the money to fully fund primary AND secondary education around the world - but they are choosing to spend it on other things, like their military budgets...
In fact, if the whole world stopped spending money on the military for just 8 days, we could have the $39 billion still needed to provide 12 years of free, quality education to every child on the planet."
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize Winner (2014) wrote a blog for the BBC when she was 11 and 12 years old under a false name, explaining what life was like under Taliban control. Despite death threats against her and her family in Pakistan, she and her father, the school founder, refused to stop advocating for girls' rights to attend school and be educated. In 2012, at the age of 15 she was shot on her school bus for defying the oppressers of her country. Malala, a true contemporary of Elizabeth Seton, Joan of Arc, and many saintly agents of divine-inspired change, is still fighting to help others as a high school student, author, speaker and subject of a film to be released this October.
Learn about her campaign, Books Not Bullets, and latest efforts to educate children around the world and to promote peace...
Learn about her campaign, Books Not Bullets, and latest efforts to educate children around the world and to promote peace...
"world leaders have the money to fully fund primary AND secondary education around the world - but they are choosing to spend it on other things, like their military budgets...In fact, if the whole world stopped spending money on the military for just 8 days, we could have the $39 billion still needed to provide 12 years of free, quality education to every child on the planet."
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