International Women's day and Kony 2012

I missed celebrating International Women's Day this year. I was soo busy all day. Go figure!
But interestingly enough, it was the day that the Kony 2012 project took over social media spaces and mainstream media here in Australia. I know facebook was just buzzing with it, it had been for a couple of days.
A friend of mine commented on how sad it was that this day had been hijacked by the project. On reflection I don't think it was.
I love love love how social media and digital content can just revolutionalise peoples perceptions to take action and raise awareness.
The Kony 2012 projects aim is to free children from slavery, war, poverty, sexual abuse and other horrendous situations. I think these two topics go hand in hand. Young girls are part of this group of "children". So if we are actively trying to free them from sexual slavery and abuse it’s my opinion that it was a perfect Project to celebrate on International Women's Day....