EMBRACElets

Name: Sarah Palazzolo

Committee: GI

Specific Issue: Gender Inequality

Title of the project: ‘EMBRACElets’

Project Summary:
The pink and blue beads together on the bracelet symbolize gender equality existing within the differences between men and women. The bracelet should serve as a visual reminder for everyone who wears it of unity between genders: each bead is a different color, but they are the same size and they are positioned together. The bracelet should also be personally empowering, because it accentuates respect, cooperation, and communication between men and women. The bracelet suggests to the individual a sense of capability and unity, and the power to act or communicate uniquely in a spirit of unity and equality.

Outline:
Phase 1 –
February 2010 - Summer 2010
Goal: raise enough money by selling bracelets to take (ideally) three students to Anatolia, Turkey (through Roberts College and Fortunate to be Feminine) to distribute bracelets free of charge along with the educational programs in place there.
Cost: the cost for the bracelet materials is negligible; I am buying the necessary materials.
Risk: not making enough money
Contingency: I will mail them the money we have raised and plenty of bracelets so that Fortunate to be Feminine can still distribute the bracelets

Phase 2 –
Summer 2010
Goal: trip to Anatolia with Fortunate to be Feminine. Hopefully I can take three students with me on a cultural experience and community service trip to assist with the Fortunate to be Feminine seminars and globalize this bracelet campaign.
Cost: 1 plane ticket to Istanbul, accommodations

Phase 3 –
Summer 2010 – March 8, 2011 (International Women’s Day is the final day of bracelet distribution)
Goal: continue distribution of bracelets in local high schools and middle schools and follow-up results and lessons from the Anatolia trip to raise awareness for gender inequalities and conditions worldwide. At this point, the bracelets will probably be given out free of charge as a visual symbol of connection between men and women, and between people all over the world. The bracelets should serve as a visual reminder of individual power of expression and the rights and dignities that each human being is entitled to.
Cost: continuing to make bracelets