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Youth Empowerment in El Salvador: The Issue Since 2015, El Salvador has been deemed the most violent nation in the world, not experiencing an active war. With an unreal murder statistic of 30 per day (in a country of 6.3 million) , the targeted party often becomes the prominent gangs, known as MS-13 and Barrio 18. The country, having lost a significant number of males and fathers in the civil war of the 1990’s, has been experiencing a generation of young men growing up without fathers. Without a man to teach them, the hostility of an impoverished society often directs young men to join gangs in order to find a sense of family and have something to do in the wake of difficult-to-find jobs. Due to some unjust deportation practices from
Others try and bring about economic opportunities (such as available jobs). And still some will just give up. In my own research, as well as personal experience in El Salvador, I have not come across any organizations who believe that the youth of El Salvador are the salvation of the country. There are programs to rehabilitate them, sometimes even give them something to do…sometimes that might even be a bible study; yet a comprehensive approach to empowering youth coupled with the belief that they can end the cyclic violence so often blamed on their very generation is rarely spotted. Such a belief in the next generation is often over-looked when compared to economic development and evangelistic
At least, it should. The feminist movement in America has largely hi-jacked the idea that, for women to be empowered to the degree that men are, then they need to have everything the same. This has largely produced a social understanding that, if women essentially become men, then they have achieved empowerment. This reality then affects how we understand women’s empowerment. Within the context of India, it is important that we recognize that women do not enjoy the same level of authority as men – despite shifting governmental statistics and some recent legal alterations. The true empowerment of women lies in what makes them a woman: their ability to be mothers. The maternal nature of women, according to God’s plan, reveals them to be the more considerate and peaceful gender. Consistently throughout the book of Genesis, the Patriarchs are reminded to listen to their wives (with YHWH’s own role often being to make their voices heard). The exact opposite of this reality can be realized in a feminist reading of the book of The