What is poverty? How end it?
Before you answer pose this question to yourself. “What if you lost everything, how long would it take you to get something to eat, find a place to stay, and a get some work?” A Brazilian pastor, Claudio Oliver, offers up a definition of poverty that most likely will surprise you and challenge your thinking about what is most important in ending poverty… and how to end it.Clue – it does not involve money.
strategy for this type of “friendship”:
Aidan, Thanks for this tip.
PS I think our founders were master at engaging people of all kinds.
point/counterpoint (from Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/it-is-expensive-to-be-poor/282979/
See also the Shriver Report and the situation of women in the US…
http://shriverreport.org/special-report/a-womans-nation-pushes-back-from-the-brink/