But is this really going to help all that much?
And Eve Ensler, author of “The Vagina Monologues,” is working with Unicef to build a City of Joy here to train women — some of them shattered by war — to transform their communities. City of Joy will teach legal rights, self-defense and skills for economic empowerment, and a team of female construction workers is helping build it right now.
Economic empowerment where there is no economy? Legal rights where there is no law?
Perhaps she could teach the Congolese some of her insights into environmental science too:
http://tinyurl.com/yzbxz36
It’ll make Eve Ensler feel better, which is the main point.
Brian has it spot on.
This isn’t going to help them at all. But that isn’t the point anyway. This is Ensler’s way of using suffering humanity as theatrical props, to make herself look heroically compassionate.
It must be true – her vagina told her so.