International Woman’s Day: 16 Tweets for Partners
Saturday, March 8th is International Women’s Day and the Alliance will be using social media to raise awareness about the critical linkages between the empowerment of women and girls and the use of clean cooking solutions. We hope that all of our partners will spread this message among their Twitter networks and have created a list of sample tweets that you can use to join the online campaign to celebrate International Women’s Day! #IWD2014.
1. Food for thought: Cooking is one of the most dangerous daily activities for #women. #CleanCookstoves #IWD2014
2. Did you know? 4mil people, die every year – 11,000/day – from inefficient #Cookstoves. #IWD2014
3. Today, empower the cooks of the world through clean #cookstoves. #Women, #InternationalWomensDay @Cookstoves #IWD2014
4. #Cookstoves are one of the most powerful ways to #EmpowerWomen and enhance #GenderEquality, @Cookstoves #IWD2014
5. #Women can spend up to four hours per day – or 60 days every year – collecting #firewood. #Cookstoves for #WomensEmpowerment #IWD2014
6. #EmpowerWomen through clean #cookstoves #IWD2014. Read more here https://bit.ly/MHTcEY @Cookstoves
7. Scale adoption of clean #cookstoves through #WomensEmpowerment. Read more here: https://bit.ly/MHTcEY @Cookstoves #IWD2014
8. Women reinvest 90% of what they make back into families and communities. #EmpowerWomen to #ChangeLives @Cookstoves #IWD2014
9. #GenderEquality starts in the heart of the home, the kitchen. #cookstoves and fuels for #IWD2014 @Cookstoves
10. #Cooking shouldn’t kill. Clean #cookstoves and fuels for the #WomenOfTheWorld – #IWD2014 @Cookstoves
11. “One of the deadliest threats that face #women and their families today is right inside their own kitchen.” #CleanCookstoves #IWD2014
12. “Could clean #cookstoves really be the issue that releases the potential of #women & #girls around the world?” @RadhaStoves @Cookstoves #IWD2014
13. #HouseholdAirPollution is the “4th worst health risk in the world. And the 2nd worst for #women.” – @HillaryClinton @Cookstoves #IWD2014
14. Unsafe #cookstoves are disastrous for #women, especially when medical care for #burns is limited. Cooking should be safe for all. #IWD2014
15. #Cookstoves burns hurt #women and children. This #IWD2014 let's renew our commitment to ensuring that cooking is safe.
16. Cooking should not kill, maim or disable. This #IWD2014 we support safe #cookstoves for all #women.
Photo credit: Chloe Shields, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves