Name:
judy
Profile:
i am a director. i travel around the world telling stories. i am fan of the underdog and the spotty dog alike. i enjoy working with my hands and have been a metal-smither for four years. i have a healthy sense of curiosity, but not entitlement.
www.judystarkmanjewelry.com
www.judystarkman.com
Juarez, Mexico
I recently visited this poor village while filming a character I was following who brings food into the country from nearby El Paso. Hope is replaced by fear. Dreams don't exist. Only hunger, survival and desperation. Violence is part of daily life. It was very dangerous for us to cross the border from El Paso into Juarez. Violence is a part of daily life. We needed armed protection.
More than 400 women have been abducted and murdered since 1993 in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico, bordering El Paso, Texas just over the Rio Grande. In a significant number of cases, the brutality with which the assailants abduct and murder the women goes further than the act of killing. Many of the women are held captive for several days and subjected to humiliation, torture and the most horrific sexual violence before dying, mostly as a result of asphyxiation caused by strangulation or from being beaten. The families of the victims have refused to be quite about the needless loss of their loved ones and continue, alongside activist from across the world, to seek justice and solutions to the issue of femicide.
There's little food to sustain this village, but the character I was folllowing, Maria Ruiz, makes this dangerous trip across the border from El Paso three times a week to bring food to the hungry locals.
People wait three hours in line to greet her and accept her food and clothing which are much needed.
If you want to help, you can go to her website and donate clothes, food, appliances, and money.
http://www.jemministriesep.org
Categories:
Subscribe to this blog's feed
Email judy
Leave a comment