The Gendercide Awareness Project @gendap started with an artist’s vision of representing the “missing” number of women in the world, currently estimated at 143,000,000, in an art exhibit featuring baby booties hung in a maie. Each pair was to represent 10,000 women and girls eliminated from the world due to social causes.The Gendercide Awareness Project team paid fair living wages to poor rural women in sewing cooperatives around the world to design and make baby booties out of indigenous materials for the art exhibit.

This memory from 8 years ago, sent by educational partner, Uganda Empowers, reflects the pride and economical gain that came from this mother’s making “baby shoes” out of willow bark. The exhibit debuted February 2017 in Dallas, Texas and has just completed a three-stop university tour in Mexico that inspired scholarship programs and educational opportunities borne of the peoples’ energized striving to #endviolenceagainstwomen in Mexico.