Many years ago there was an awakening of the Divine Femi9 Energy within a young girl. She felt a need to connect with a deeper, more profound part of herself as she journeyed along the path to her Soul Essence. She was only seven years old at the time, which is considered to be the age of reason in American society. A voice whispered, “You are here on Earth to attain your highest spiritual good.” She looked into the mirror and saw her Soul. The beauty of it brought a smile to her lips that she felt in her heart.

As Daughter of the Rainbow grew up within the society in which she lived, she had drifted along various paths in life that were a series of initiations unbeknownst to her. All the while she was being prepared for a great work. Having been brought up a Catholic, she was exposed to the Goddess in the person of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was a small beginning but a good one for being open and receptive to the rituals and ceremonies befitting the Sacred Femi9.

Time passes and Daughter of the Rainbow begins to receive guidance and solace in the practice of yoga, chanting and meditation. She had not yet lived twenty years on Mother Earth but she heeded the call. This was the part of the journey that would teach her about the power of stillness. It was quite an enlightening time. With the foundation that she was given, it allowed her to be able to embrace walking the path of a Priestess, surrendering to the countless initiations that she would be taken through.

According to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, initiation means in part, the rites, ceremonies, ordeals, or instructions with which one is made a member of a sect or society or is invested with a particular function or status. An initiate is being instructed in (Read more ...)

Sitting at my computer, deadline quickly approaching, thoughts of my next article begin to flow as I listen to didgeridoo meditation music. The Great Mind of Ma said, “The Spirit of the Womb must be healed.” That was my cue as to what my Higher She had to impart.

Many women are in toxic, intimate relationships. These relationships do not allow women to honor themselves, their family, their community or the world at large.

In various Medicine Woman cultures, when a woman has been molested, sexually abused or simply ending an intimate relationship that has run its course, she cleanses herself with a fertile egg.

Saying prayers and affirmations into the egg to release the hurt, the pain, the anguish and to bless the situation, she then passes the egg over the aura of her yoni to absorb the negative energy from her womb, making it an offering to the Great Earth Mother, that She may transform the energy into one of a joyous rebirth.

After cleansing the Spirit of the Womb, one would ask the Mother of the Earth permission to enter into her Sacred Body in order to bury the egg and seal it with salt and ash, as is done amongst the women of the Dagara people in West Africa.

This type of ritual cleansing is done four times: Four consecutive days, four weeks or four months. Each time another egg is used and the same process of burying the past is ceremoniously performed.

In other Medicine Woman cultures, they break the egg in running water after such a cleansing.

One can also use crystals instead of eggs. I recommend red, orange or clear quartz crystals for this work. The Earth Mother gives us crystals and gems to work with that we may heal ourselves but She too is in need of a healing and by giving away a crystal to (Read more ...)

Life of Street Girls and great issue of AIDS

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-
-Executive Director-
-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-
-24/3 M. C. Roy Lane-
-Dhaka-1211, Bangladesh-
rainbowngo@gmail.com
www.newsletter.com.bd
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The phenomenon of street children and girls has been a major concern for most areas of Dhaka city. Thousands of street children and girls all over in Bangladesh, primarily in the urban areas, work and live in the streets. Urban poverty, increasing dissatisfaction with the public educational system together with the difficult living conditions and broken families has led to a growing problem of street children and girls. Different categories of children in especially difficult circumstances can be identified; some of them maintain family links while undertaking apprenticeship or street hawking to help their family survive, while others are completely cut off from their family, making the streets or park their home and community.

Life in the streets is hard and unsafe, especially for a girl who, in the first place, has no business being there – begging, selling flowers, drinking-water, chocolate or toffee, sometimes even their bodies. Street girls are vulnerable to all sorts of risks: the reckless motorist; the abusive police officer; the drug, crime, and prostitution syndicates; even the bigger, older street boys who taunt or intimidate them. Despite these, or maybe even because of these, most street girls develop both a resistance to destruction and a capacity for positive construction. These are the two components of resilience – the capacity to do well in spite of difficult circumstances.

There are many teen girls living on (Read more ...)

AIDS ingesting – a major health issue of Adolescents

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-
-Executive Director-
-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-
-24/3 M. C. Roy Lane-
-Dhaka-1211, Bangladesh-
rainbowngo@gmail.com
www.newsletter.com.bd
Tell: 880-2-8628908
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In many countries the majority of adolescents are sexually experienced by the age of 20 and premarital and consensual sex is common among 15-19 year-olds. Sometimes teenager’s Risky sexual behaviour is also can result in contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Contracting a sexually transmitted infection is a behavioral problem not a pharmaceutical one. It is unprotected sex that leads to a rise in STI’s.

AIDS is basically a sexually transmitted disease (STD), which like some other such diseases can also be spread through blood and blood products, and from an infected woman to her unborn or newborn child. Women and girls are biologically more vulnerable than men to HIV infection and other STDs. Worldwide; the most visible impact of HIV/AIDS is the increase in the deaths of young adults. The peak mortality age for women is in the 25–35 age range and for men in the 35–45 range.

HIV infection is increasing most rapidly among young people. Half of all new infections in the US occur in people younger than 25. Sex before marriage, or sex after marriage without spouse, is still taboo for most people in our society. Most would also prefer their partners to be virgins. Sex has become much more accepted in our society today. The fact that sex has become very common among adolescents today is irrefutable. Most cases of HIV infection in women are the result of sexual contact with infected men; Use (Read more ...)

AIDS: The Burning Problem for the Sustainability of Prostitute

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-
-Executive Director-
-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-
-24/3 M. C. Roy Lane-
-Dhaka-1211, Bangladesh-
rainbowngo@gmail.com
www.newsletter.com.bd
Tell: 880-2-8628908
Mobile: 01711344997

The HIV/AIDS epidemic has developed into a major warning to human development— mainly in the poorest countries of the world. It spreads out depend on several social custom or norm prejudicial practice, such as gender discrimination, sexual violence, early marriage, trafficking, unsafe sex or exploitation of sex workers, transmission of other STDs, intravenous/injection drug uses. Socio-economic position and illiteracy also can makes vulnerable for HIV/AIDS. It is not only a public health issue but also one which is beginning to affect the dynamics of social, cultural, economic and developmental pace of the society we live in.

In the early days of the epidemic, men vastly outnumbered women among people infected with HIV. In 1997, women made up 41% of all people living with HIV. Today, nearly 50 percent of the global population of HIV infected persons are women. AIDS is now a leading cause of death among women aged 20-40 in Europe and North America. Worldwide, half of all new HIV infections are in young people aged 10 to 25, with teenager girls in some places as much as five times more at risk than teenager boys. The epidemic’s ‘feminization’ is most apparent in sub-Saharan Africa, where close to 60% of those infected are women, and 75% of young people infected are girls aged 15-24.

Being a girl or a boy, a woman or man, influences the nature of the risk for contracting HIV/AIDS and how a person (Read more ...)