Here's to my mum, the quietly brave woman, behind me, always and unconditionally. In Uzbek it is hamen, in Uyghur it is Hemiyan, in Kazakh / emiyan and in Turkmen ham stands for leather ).
Ukrainian word hamanets ( wallet / purse) was also borrowed from Turkic (where for example in Crimean Tatar hemiyan or Chuvash haman means leather purse, bag. Sometimes, this is one thing that makes all the difference. Ukrainian bohatyr ( hero) also stems from Turkish bahadir ( brave, hero ). There are many quietly brave heroes out there, opening their hearts and giving others a place to belong. What she did was equip and empower us to be make a dent in our world. Mum did not influence or change laws, policies or society, she did not change wage gap, no. It takes a lot of courage to love unconditionally, it takes a lot of courage to keep the structures from crumbling down and it takes a lot of courage to be grateful for your share of green grass, however little or big. As grown up, we realised the real meaning of courage. Growing up, it seemed like Dad was the strong one. She gave me the gift of reflecting and celebrating my mother for everything she has done and continues to for my brothers and I.
Her gift to me today was when she shared the story of the quiet and strong woman who kept their family together, who made a circle for everyone to belong to, who cut through the noise- her mother. Rebecca continues to do incredible work in the social enterprise space and providing young people with life skills, work experience and training. We had the pleasure of having Rebecca Scott, CEO of STREAT, address us this afternoon at the celebration of the '2016 Inspirational Women of Yarra Awards' I had the honour of being part of a group of inspirational women doing amazing work in the City of Yarra.īeing recognised for the work we are doing at the Duke of Ed on driving gender change encourages us to 'Step it up for Gender Equality'.
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