The pair named their new joint venture Dame Products and embarked on a Star Trek-inspired mission: to design well-engineered sex toys, to heighten intimacy, and to openly empower the sexual experiences of womankind.
By using culturally sensitive messages and communication techniques - coupled with in-depth community outreach, education and training - the whole community are empowered to engage openly and honestly on the sensitive issue of FGC.
Democrats are openly hoping that the newly empowered social conservatives end up provoking a backlash by 2004, especially among the suburban women who tend to be economic conservatives but more socially liberal.
And while questions regarding sexual health can be sensitive, Leslie says it's the clinician's job to build trust with a patient so they can feel empowered to answer openly and honestly to help build a treatment plan.
I recently received encouraging words from a Texas-based faith leader, who had participated in one our trainings, she wrote, "We are now empowered to speak openly about HIV/AIDS with family and friends..
Facilitators of the debriefing guided and empowered participants to reflect openly on their own behaviors, to challenge own beliefs and frames and to conceptualize new principles and actions.
"I hope that it reminds people to not be consumed with what others might think," Tegan said, "but instead to follow their hearts and feel empowered to express themselves freely, openly, and happily".
This call inspired Ugandans to talk about AIDS more openly, which in turn erased the stigma of the disease to some degree, empowered women to divorce unfaithful husbands and cast shame on those who continued to have affairs.
Empowered by their new knowledge, Ms. Camara and other village women started to openly discuss the harmful effects of FGC and early marriage on their daughters.
