Conversation for Empowerment in Ending World Hunger
This group is an invitation to explore the existing discourse on empowerment in efforts to end world hunger. We will tie together organizations and social media activity that focus work and ideas from within a paradigm of empowerment and establishing self-reliance, as compared to a discourse of charity. The intent is to distinguish and expand the empowerment ...learn more
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Created: May 31, 2009
Updated: Nov 21, 2009
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Topic: What do you see as / where do you see the persistent charity conversation that locks recipients in a
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Discourses that "persist for generations must be particularly resilient, capable of spreading, propagating, and, most interestingly, capable of defending themselves against attack. If they couldn't, they wouldn't be around anymore" (Nancy Chek, 2009).
What do you see as / where do you see the persistent charity conversation that locks recipients in a cycle of dependency? If we understand the conversations, we have better access to transforming them to one of empowerment.