Comments on: Walking Together to Eradicate Poverty http://wendimomen.com/2007/08/01/walking-together-to-eradicate-poverty/ Travelling Light Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:42:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Barney http://wendimomen.com/2007/08/01/walking-together-to-eradicate-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Barney Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:25:38 +0000 http://wendimomen.com/2007/08/01/walking-together-to-eradicate-poverty/#comment-55 Wendi, many thanks for a fascinating account of the very powerful speakers and messages you heard at the Soroptimist International conference. It seems to me that Rawwida Baksh is exactly right: help to individuals is not enough. We have to change structures, systems, institutions and, indeed, whole cultures (including their conceptual and emotional frameworks and the kind of unthought-through assumptions that go with these cultures about the role of women, removing poverty and so on. I look forward to your account of the climate change workshop. Wendi, many thanks for a fascinating account of the very powerful speakers and messages you heard at the Soroptimist International conference. It seems to me that Rawwida Baksh is exactly right: help to individuals is not enough. We have to change structures, systems, institutions and, indeed, whole cultures (including their conceptual and emotional frameworks and the kind of unthought-through assumptions that go with these cultures about the role of women, removing poverty and so on.

I look forward to your account of the climate change workshop.

]]>