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During V-Day's 2003 season over 1,000 V-Day benefit events were presented by volunteer activists around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls, raising $4 million and benefiting over 1000 organizations. V-Day 2003 events took place in cities as far reaching as Ukiah, CA; Islamabad, Pakistan; Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Lubumbashi, Congo; and Nairobi, Kenya where the proceeds went to the re-opening of a women's shelter that had closed its doors due to lack of funding.
V-Day 2003's theme was
"Let V-Day to V-World." When the violence stops, women and girls will be allowed to be born in China, India And Korea; swimming in Iran; safe in their beds at home in the United States, Europe and Asia; eating ice cream in Afghanistan; keeping their clitorises in Africa and Asia; wearing blue jeans in Italy; voting in Kuwait; walking in the park at night in the United States; openly flirting in Jordan; safe at parties on college campuses; playing with toys and not being sold as them in Asia, the United States, Europe and Eastern Europe; driving cars in Saudi Arabia; wearing trousers in Swaziland; safely walking home from work in Juarez, Mexico; enjoying sex; celebrating their desires; loving their bodies; and running the world.
We urge you to expand this list and put your power behind the vision.
