As I expand my knowledge on the many resources and learn various things on the global perspective for providing opportunities to explore national and international organizations, I learn more about the effective practices in different parts of the world.
This week, my focal point is international poverty. In view, I will be looking for advocate strategies devoted to addressing this issue that can, might, and will create positive change in the community by providing support for children and/or families impacted by poverty.
One organization that I found most intriguing was The Hunger Project. The Hunger Project is a global, nonprofit, organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. Their vision is to be in a “world we are every woman, man, and child leave a healthy, fulfilling life of self-reliance and dignity.” Their mission: “to end hunger and poverty by pioneering sustainable, grassroots, women-centered strategies and advocating for their widespread adoption in countries throughout the world” (Empowering People to End Their Own Hunger, 2020).
This organization, different from many, recognize that poverty exists but however also believe poverty is sexist. With this, the organization believes that empowering women is essential to ending world hunger and poverty. They fight for clean drinking water, nutrition, and sanitation, as well as economic growth. They have many programs throughout Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. They are all “based on an innovative, holistic approach, which empowers women and men living in rural villages to become the agents of their own development and make sustainable progress in overcoming hunger and poverty” (ibid, 2020).
With new insight on this organization, some information that can be presented in light of providing opportunities for positive social change is get involved. Like many, this organization have adapted three pillars to meet their challenges and provide opportunities wherever they work takes them.
- Empowering women
- Mobilizing communities into self-reliant action
- Fostering alliances to get local governments involved
There’s so much, we as women (and men) can be doing to help stop poverty takeover. One way, is by supporting community development initiatives. In order to see a change, we must be the change.
Resources:
Empowering People to End Their Own Hunger. Retrieved March 20, 2020, from www.thp.org
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Hi Allison,
A great choice for your resource I learned so much about the website just from your post. I like that this resource focuses on Empowering women,
Mobilizing communities into self-reliant action, and Fostering alliances to get local governments involved. These are all things needed in the context of the early childhood field and poverty.
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Thank you. There’s so many organizations that deal on perverts but this one stood out to me the most.
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Hello Allison,
I like the mission of this organization. Woman need to feel empowered and feel like they can overcome living in poverty. I do think some people view poverty as a woman and child thing. Its programs out here that is designed to give women the resources they need to help them improve their family situation. I love that this organization helps women and their children.
Thanks for sharing
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Agreed. This is one of the reasons that I chose this organization. Many people view it from one perspective but there’s so many sides to a story; and they’re never told or ever heard.
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you chose some good things to talk about and I think that I will go back a read the empowering women part.
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Yes, it’s quite intriguing. To see that an organization powered by women and empowering women to fix the problems is quite liberating. (From a woman’s point of view- lol)
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