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.
Tags: Claudio Oliver, poverty, Poverty Analysis
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/