Write about a story from the Girl Rising film that was memorable to you. What are 2-3 things you learned from the girl’s story? What are 2-3 social ecological factors that shaped the life trajectory of one of the girls in the story.
The film Girl Rising was amazing and very eye opening. It was a hard movie to watch to learn about all the ways girls are looked upon. Suma’s story was the most memorable story out of them all to me. I did not know that there was such a thing as a Kamlari. To even think that her parents would make her go and live and serve people in labor is unfathomable. She started working at a young age of 6 and couldn’t live with her parents but had to live at different people’s houses that treated her very poorly. In the film she says, “My mother and father bonded me just so that I would have somewhere to live and enough food to eat. I was 6 years old.” (Girl Rising 21:23) One thing I learned from her story is that you can overcome even the worst circumstances. Going through all she did and still thriving. Going to night classes where she realized that Kamlari was actually just slave labor and finding a voice to stand up for other Kamlari’s as one of the teachers did for her. Another thing I learned was how Indian culture is more favorable of boys than girls. It is astonishing how little we hear about other cultures in school and not knowing about how they treated females in different countries. For her parents to choose to put her in slave labor but not her brother. As her brother got to stay home and go to school to get an education but because she was a girl, she couldn’t go to school but instead had to be doing bonded labor.
One social ecological factor that shaped the life trajectory of Suma’s story was from an intrapersonal level of her gender being female. In the film she says, “I wanted my mother and father to take me back. I wanted them to let me stay at home and go to school like my brother but when I thought about how poor they were and how much they too had to suffer. It made me feel weak. I couldn’t ask.” (Girl Rising 22:19) Just because she was female and not a male like her brother she could not stay home and have an education because to her parent’s boys having an education is more valuable than girls. She had so many social ecological factors from the intrapersonal level working against her. Such as her gender, ethnicity, and her economic status. All of these factors shaped how her life trajectory goes by her parents being poor and not having enough food to feed her. So, sending her to a master to be a Kamlari so she has a place to live and eat and also the fact that it was part of their culture in India. Both her parents also worked as a Kamlari growing up. Another social ecological factor was from an interpersonal level of her family as her social support and them making the choice to send her off to be a Kamlari. That choice made a huge impact the path her life went instead of where it could have gone if they would have made a better choice to have her get an education.
Examine education as a determinant of health. How does it relate to health status? Your own health status? The health of a community or nation? Give examples.
Not having proper education can be detrimental to one’s health status. It can cause someone’s health to be worse and shorten their life expectancy. From the Article, Missed Opportunities: The High Cost of Not Educating Girls it says, “In developing countries, universal secondary education for girls could increase women’s knowledge of HIV/AIDS and empower them to make decisions about their own healthcare. It could also improve their sense of psychological well-being, reduce the risk of intimate partner violence, and reduce the risk of under-five mortality and malnutrition among their children.” Education is so important for everyone to have. People learn how to prevent diseases, prevent unwanted babies, and what is right and what’s wrong. They learn so much about being healthy, eating healthy, and exercising.
Many people do not have control over education as a determinant of health such as many of these girls that do not get a choice to go to school and learn. Education affects their health status and their overall wellbeing with them mentally and physically. Lower education levels have impacts on our health and not being able to understand what it means to be healthy in life. Like it talks about in the quote where having an education can reduce the risk of getting HIV or AIDS. Having education can help girls to be married at an older age, have children at an older age and reduce the risk of children dying at a younger age. For my own health status without going to school and having an education I would not be able to provide for my family and take care of them. I think without the education I have I would be poor and rely on other people to provide for me. From the website Theirworld it says, “Some countries lose more than $1 billion a year by failing to educate girls to the same level as boys. An educated female population increases a country's productivity and fuels economic growth.” I believe that having an education helps the health of the community and nation because it provides healthy females that work productively in society adding more ideas and growth for the nation. It causes less death and healthier people that are contributing to society and helping provide for their families. They are able to afford medical care for themselves and their families which is very important to having a longer life expectancy. I believe that everyone should have an opportunity for an education with out having to go through so many sacrifices and that no one should have to pay to have an education.
References
Girl Rising. (2013). Retrieved January 26, 2020, from https://washington.kanopy.com/video/girl-rising
Missed Opportunities: The High Cost of Not Educating Girls. (2018). Retrieved January 26, 2020, from https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/education/publication/missed-opportunities-the-high-cost-of-not-educating-girls
Girls' Education. (n.d.). Retrieved January 26, 2020, from https://theirworld.org/explainers/girls-education
The film Girl Rising was amazing and very eye opening. It was a hard movie to watch to learn about all the ways girls are looked upon. Suma’s story was the most memorable story out of them all to me. I did not know that there was such a thing as a Kamlari. To even think that her parents would make her go and live and serve people in labor is unfathomable. She started working at a young age of 6 and couldn’t live with her parents but had to live at different people’s houses that treated her very poorly. In the film she says, “My mother and father bonded me just so that I would have somewhere to live and enough food to eat. I was 6 years old.” (Girl Rising 21:23) One thing I learned from her story is that you can overcome even the worst circumstances. Going through all she did and still thriving. Going to night classes where she realized that Kamlari was actually just slave labor and finding a voice to stand up for other Kamlari’s as one of the teachers did for her. Another thing I learned was how Indian culture is more favorable of boys than girls. It is astonishing how little we hear about other cultures in school and not knowing about how they treated females in different countries. For her parents to choose to put her in slave labor but not her brother. As her brother got to stay home and go to school to get an education but because she was a girl, she couldn’t go to school but instead had to be doing bonded labor.
One social ecological factor that shaped the life trajectory of Suma’s story was from an intrapersonal level of her gender being female. In the film she says, “I wanted my mother and father to take me back. I wanted them to let me stay at home and go to school like my brother but when I thought about how poor they were and how much they too had to suffer. It made me feel weak. I couldn’t ask.” (Girl Rising 22:19) Just because she was female and not a male like her brother she could not stay home and have an education because to her parent’s boys having an education is more valuable than girls. She had so many social ecological factors from the intrapersonal level working against her. Such as her gender, ethnicity, and her economic status. All of these factors shaped how her life trajectory goes by her parents being poor and not having enough food to feed her. So, sending her to a master to be a Kamlari so she has a place to live and eat and also the fact that it was part of their culture in India. Both her parents also worked as a Kamlari growing up. Another social ecological factor was from an interpersonal level of her family as her social support and them making the choice to send her off to be a Kamlari. That choice made a huge impact the path her life went instead of where it could have gone if they would have made a better choice to have her get an education.
Examine education as a determinant of health. How does it relate to health status? Your own health status? The health of a community or nation? Give examples.
Not having proper education can be detrimental to one’s health status. It can cause someone’s health to be worse and shorten their life expectancy. From the Article, Missed Opportunities: The High Cost of Not Educating Girls it says, “In developing countries, universal secondary education for girls could increase women’s knowledge of HIV/AIDS and empower them to make decisions about their own healthcare. It could also improve their sense of psychological well-being, reduce the risk of intimate partner violence, and reduce the risk of under-five mortality and malnutrition among their children.” Education is so important for everyone to have. People learn how to prevent diseases, prevent unwanted babies, and what is right and what’s wrong. They learn so much about being healthy, eating healthy, and exercising.
Many people do not have control over education as a determinant of health such as many of these girls that do not get a choice to go to school and learn. Education affects their health status and their overall wellbeing with them mentally and physically. Lower education levels have impacts on our health and not being able to understand what it means to be healthy in life. Like it talks about in the quote where having an education can reduce the risk of getting HIV or AIDS. Having education can help girls to be married at an older age, have children at an older age and reduce the risk of children dying at a younger age. For my own health status without going to school and having an education I would not be able to provide for my family and take care of them. I think without the education I have I would be poor and rely on other people to provide for me. From the website Theirworld it says, “Some countries lose more than $1 billion a year by failing to educate girls to the same level as boys. An educated female population increases a country's productivity and fuels economic growth.” I believe that having an education helps the health of the community and nation because it provides healthy females that work productively in society adding more ideas and growth for the nation. It causes less death and healthier people that are contributing to society and helping provide for their families. They are able to afford medical care for themselves and their families which is very important to having a longer life expectancy. I believe that everyone should have an opportunity for an education with out having to go through so many sacrifices and that no one should have to pay to have an education.
References
Girl Rising. (2013). Retrieved January 26, 2020, from https://washington.kanopy.com/video/girl-rising
Missed Opportunities: The High Cost of Not Educating Girls. (2018). Retrieved January 26, 2020, from https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/education/publication/missed-opportunities-the-high-cost-of-not-educating-girls
Girls' Education. (n.d.). Retrieved January 26, 2020, from https://theirworld.org/explainers/girls-education
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