They have attitude and confidence," she says. The problem is not the rape, but how will she tell the man she's about to marry that she is not a virgin because if he finds out on their wedding night he might throw her out on to the street. We don't provide that.
But there are doctors who do. Sinead Whyte of HAO spent two years working there. But in the rural villages women do the heavy agriculture work. Women and donkeys do the carrying. It's in everything Tom the garbage on the streets, to the vagabond dogs, to the guys who drive round in big Mercedes and hassle you at traffic lights.
The helpline received calls in January. Their wives were having breakdowns and they wanted us to send a psychiatrist. So far none of the callers reporting violence or rape has wanted to go to the police. Since the fighting started the phone still rings, but less frequently and rarely in the evening when curfew forces the men to stay at home.
Most of the calls come from women in the city as calls from villages go through the post office. There are calls from women who have been raped and are locked up in their homes because their family is so ashamed of them. Since December, Ms Colgan's Albanian friends have talked of little else but leaving the country.
There was a visa lottery and it was as if the whole of Albania was there posting their visa forms. There's even a special box for them," she said. In June HAO plans to send four lorries to Albania filled with medical supplies for hospitals and clinics.
The country has the highest infant mortality rate in Europe and a large number of women die in childbirth. The project Women at the Wheel plans a benefit concert in the Millstreet arena on May 25th. Ms Colgan doesn't believe there are the same ethnic divisions as in the former Yugoslavia.
Please update your payment details to keep enjoying your Irish Times subscription. He initially refused but then realised he could do so while remaining true to his life as a poet. So, in an unusual synergy of his talents, he quotes from more than poems - both his own and those of William Blake, Derek Mahon, Patrick Kavanagh, Stephen Spender and others - in his corporate workshops to explore creativity, power and the soul at work.
Now, dividing his time between writing poetry, writing books his previous book, The Heart Aroused: poetry and the preservation of the soul in corporate America sold more than , copies and giving workshops and seminars, he lives with his wife, a Canadian psychiatrist, his year-old son and seven-year-old daughter on Whidbey Island, one mile off the coast of Seattle in Washington State.
His next book, will look at the three relationships we have to sustain in life "It's called the Three Marriages referring to the long-term emotional relationship with another person, the 'marriage to work' and the marriage to yourself with all its changing desires and ambitions as you go through life," says Whyte, whose aim is to explore the balanced dynamic energy between each three interconnected spheres which will allow us to live out our life plans.
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