Making the World a better place: One blanket at a time

1. Making the World a better place: One blanket at a time By: Jena Seideman

2. Personal • Adopted from Kunming, China (Yunnan Province- Southern) • Born on March 27 and put on police doorstep • Orphan for 2 years • Kunming Children’s Welfare institute

3. Personal • Was suppose to be adopted by someone else but it fell through • “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” –Marilyn Monroe • Adopted by Sam and Lynn Seidemann, and I can say, I have been happy ever since!

4. Jena’s baby photos

5. What is my Project? • Gold Award • Teamed up with All Girls Allowed in their blanket ministry • Goal is 100 blankets • Each blanket will be given to the organization  Distributed to women who choose to keep their daughter • Shows the support we have for gender equality past our borders • Proverbs 31:8-9

6. What is the one child policy? • September 25, 1980 enacted by the Chinese government under Mao • Great Leap forward led to a man-made 30 million death famine • The birth rate was once 4 children per woman • Confucius principles that the son will take care of the parents in old age • Gendercide: A deliberate and systematic destruction of a gender group, most commonly women • Family planning police • Quotas to have children • Cannot have children and be unmarried • Those born outside of the quota system are called illegal or black children: no access to healthcare and education

7. Continued • Three biggest issues are abandonment, infanticide, and abortion • 1 million girls abandoned each year • Since ratio is 120 boys to 100 girls, trafficking occurs • 35,000 abortions performed each day • 500 women commit suicide each day in China: the only country where women kill themselves more than men • Its has been reported that since the one child policy began… • 336 million children have been aborted • 196 million sterilizations • 403 million IUDs (Intrauterine devices- birth control)

8. Continued • http://vimeo.com/28955802 • 1/6 Girls have been lost to Gendercide • 37 million more men than women • Barebranches: usuallyfalls to thepoor • Inverted pyramid: social issues • China’s crime rates have DOUBLED in the last 20 years • High sex ratios have had correlation to crimes such as rape, sex trafficking ect. • In terms of abortions, if you are illegal, they do not care. • Up to 9th month they will kill your baby

9. Testimonies • http://www.allgirlsallowed.org/blog-news • In the link above, scroll until you see the article about the Late term forced abortion • http://www.allgirlsallowed.org/blog/posts/chinese-mother-kills-newborn-daughter-throwing-her-out-window • For other resources, please visit www.allgirlsallowed.org • You can also read A Mother’s Ordeal • Watch ‘It’s a Girl Documentary’

10. Quick Thank Yous • Thank you to • My loving parents and brother, Lynn, Sam, and Nick • My volunteers • Everyone who donated materials specifically the Diebold family, my math Teacher Mrs. Levell, The Women’s Morning Ministry at St. Ann Parish, Girl Scout Brownie Troops 1657 and 4623, and Theresa Omar • My Aunt Phyllis and Cousin Elizabeth for the 10 hour workday they put in with me • Everyone who attended the sessions • All those who prayed for this project and my sanity • If I forgot anyone, I thank you to! Your support will give over 100 babies blankets, and with these blankets, we support women who face oppression around the world.

11. Works Cited • "Gendercide | All Girls Allowed." Gendercide | All Girls Allowed. All Girls Allowed, 2013. Web. 10 Mar. 2014. <http://www.allgirlsallowed.org/gendercide>. • Stone, Mark. "China Couple Speak Of 'Forced Abortion'" Sky News. Sky News, 3 Oct. 2013. Web. 10 Mar. 2014. <http://news.sky.com/story/1150016/china-couple- speak-of-forced-abortion>.