By: TOM G.

COLOMBIA

▪ Major: Elementary Inclusive Education

▪ Year: Senior

▪ Hometown: Menahga, Minnesota

▪ Graduated High School: 2011

▪ Why Teaching? I was the youngest of four boys and I always looked up to my older brothers. My oldest brother became a teacher and I admired that. I was coaching elementary basketball during high school and had so much fun working with younger children, so I decided to take up a profession I know I would enjoy doing.

About Me:

▪ Favorites▪ Music: Rap▪ Sport: Football▪ Food: Sushi▪ Color: Blue

▪ Hobbies: ▪ I enjoy being active and playing sports. ▪ I love being around family and friends and spending quality time

with them. ▪ I like reading books that I can learn from. ▪ I like watching movies that take place during the 1920’s. I am

fascinated by that time period.

About Me Continued:

FLAG OF COLOMBIA

COLOMBIA

Statistics:

▪ Population: 46.30 million people▪ Male: 22.7▪ Female: 23.6▪ Gender Ratio: 97

▪ Literacy Rates:▪ Men: 93.25% over 15 years of age▪ Women: 93.49% over 15 years of age

▪ Unemployment Rate▪ Women: 13.7 %▪ Men: Nearly Double that of women’s unemployment

rate

▪ Labor Market Participation▪ Women: 54.1 % ▪ Men: 75%

Rape

▪ During 2012, there were 55,638 reported incidents of domestic violence, and 16,063 reports of alleged sexual violence against women, (according to Colombia’s National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences.)

▪ One of five girls is pregnant from the ages of 15-19

▪ According to research, on average two women are raped an hour in Colombia

Violence

▪ On average, every four days a women was murdered by her spouse

▪ Women work on average ten hours more a week than men, but receive 20% less of their pay

▪ Violence against women has an estimated cost between 2% and 4% of Colombia’s GDP

▪ 99% of all abortions are illegal

Resources

• "Colombia - Literacy Rate." Colombia. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Aug. 2014.• "GeoHive." - Male / Female Distribution. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Aug. 2014.• Moloney, Anastasia. "INTERVIEW: Earning a Living Is Biggest Obstacle for Colombian

Women Presidential Adviser." INTERVIEW: Earning a Living Is Biggest Obstacle for Colombian Women –

Presidential Adviser. Thomas Reuters Foundation, 13 Aug. 2013. Web. 28 Aug. 2014• "'Too Late for Me': Women Flee Colombia to Escape Sexualized Violence." Women

Under Siege Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Aug. 2014.