Resilience: Inspiring Women Overcoming Daunting Obstacles

摘要

An integral part of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals is empowering women (United Nations, 2019). Resilience is the ability to recover from or adjust to misfortune or change (Merriam-Webster, 2019). Women with resilience overcome overwhelming challenges in their lives. Recently, I witnessed a Sudanese woman who is a human rights defender and social worker, Karak Mayik Denyok Miakol, receive the Peacemaker Award from the Center for Conflict Resolution at Brigham Young University School of Law. An MCN Global Health and Nursing column was written about her (Callister, 2015). As I consider her life work helping women overcome the devastation of poverty and degradation in South Sudan, I am amazed by her resilience as evidenced by her strength and courage. In conjunction with International Women's Day, United Nations Women (2019) shared stories of vulnerable women living in one of the largest refugee camps in the world who are overcoming overwhelming obstacles. These women live in the Kakuma refugee camp and Kalobeyei settlement in northwestern Kenya. Their inspiring narratives exemplify what resilience is all about.