Do we honestly think that a few pictures on the wall can make a change?

I feel very passionate about women and as a young man who was raised by a single mother, I feel that women are nurtures, lovers, protectors and more to us. We can look at how lioness take care of their cubs and are even ready to fight with males to protect them at all costs, this is also the same case with the female Latrodectus i.e. The Black Widow. It is also the same case with how women protect their babies.

If we look carefully at this, there are many factors that could critical to this project, there are many aspects we could look into while attacking this matter and working on this project. We are at a country where gender equality is at its peak, a country where women are raped and killed almost every day, women and child abuse is the talk of the day.

Do we honestly think that a few pictures on the wall will change how this situation, mainly bring safety to our society. I feel it is also a debatable matter as it has never been tried before. We should also look at the fact that the women in our community are the most robbed and the way we perceive them is not that they are powerful, they are strong, and they are protectors and more. We do not have that culture instilled in us, it is something we know, but we do not acknowledge it.

We also need to look at the fact that there as few women leaders in our community as are in our country. Our parliament has so few women and they are just the speakers, not the protectors and decision makers, they are not highly regarded as protectors.

We need to work on this very strategically and I’m very keen on doing this project, getting the views of people and what they think about it, we could first go around asking people randomly about the subject. Ask them whether they feel it would work and how they would improve it, if they think it will not work. (This text was written as a first harvest of critical yet optimistic thoughts in a response to the idea behind the Mama Watch project. Photographs are taken from JR's INSIDE OUT website http://www.insideoutproject.net/)