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: Do you focus your contribution(s)?
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Where do you contribute, financially or through your time? Do your efforts promote empowerment, or some other paradigm? Please share those organizations or projects that you are involved in, which you believe promote empowerment and self-reliance based solutions to hunger and poverty.
The members of this Group invest their time and money in the following organizations that promote empowerment and self-reliance based solutions to hunger and poverty:
The Hunger Project - Mobilizing people at the grassroots level to build self-reliance, and empowering women as key change agents
The Carter Center - The Center believes that people can improve their lives when provided with the necessary skills, knowledge, and access to resources.
Habitat for Humanity - Promoting [self help] home ownership as a means to breaking the cycle of poverty