Your Story Matters

Listeners we are back this week with episode 200! What a milestone! Instead of a celebration, Pam comes in to share a part of her story that catapulted her passion for listening to other's stories. It only took 200 episodes for her to feel safe enough to share this story, and by synchronicity, episode 200 landed during April, Sexual Assault Awareness Month. TRIGGER WARNING: Sexual Assault. This episode is brought to you by The Washington Office on Latin America Social leaders often face-off with a Colombian government that refuses to admit its failures, and they stand up to armed groups terrorizing their communities. Hundreds of Afro-descendent and Indigenous social leaders have been killed in Colombia for their work advocating for their communities, yet they persist. In a new documentary podcast series, you will hear why directly from four of them. REBUILDING PEACE IN COLOMBIA, created by the Washington Office on Latin America and in partnership with Peabody-nominated Lantigua Williams & Co as part of the digital advocacy campaign CON LÍDERES HAY PAZ. The four-part, bilingual podcast series follows the stories of social leaders in Colombia who, every day, under threat to their lives, search for truth and work toward reconciliation, fight for justice for victims of the Colombian conflict, and ensure the government lives up to the guarantees it made to ethnic and rural communities in the historic 2016 peace accord. Subscribe now to REBUILDING PEACE IN COLOMBIA wherever you get your podcasts. With social leaders, peace in Colombia is possible. They are asking us to support their work and protect their lives. Sign up for related updates, advocacy actions, and the action group guide at conlidereshaypaz.org. Please understand this episode was shared to empower others to share their stories as long as they feel safe. It is our role as citizens of the world to create safe spaces for survivors and thrivers. The goal of this episode is to create awareness of sexual assault and provide resources like those listed below: Resources: https://mcsr.org/ https://www.nsvrc.org/ https://www.rainn.org/ Data from NSVRC.org One in five women and one in 71 men will be raped at some point in their lives (a) In the U.S., one in three women and one in six men experienced some form of contact sexual violence in their lifetime (o) 51.1% of female victims of rape reported being raped by an intimate partner and 40.8% by an acquaintance (a) 52.4% of male victims report being raped by an acquaintance and 15.1% by a stranger (a) 91% of victims of rape and sexual assault are female, and nine percent are male (m) In 8 out of 10 cases of rape, the victim knew the perpetrator (j) Follow Cafe con Pam on all things social Instagram Facebook http://cafeconpam.com/ Join the FREE Cafe con Pam Challenge Join FREE online Recovering Procrastinator Manis Community! stayshining.club Join PowerSisters! Findmypowersister.com Subscribe, rate, review, and share this episode with someone you love! And don't ever forget to Stay Shining! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/cafe-con-pam--6348411/support.