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#THE MOMENT OF LIFT HOW TO#

You don’t have to guess what the barriers are. The challenge of delivery reveals the causes of poverty. The more I saw our work in the field, the more I realised that delivery needs to shape strategy.

Poverty is created by barriers we have to get around or break down those barriers to deliver solutions.

Their cup is already full, so you have to understand what is in their cup.” If you don’t understand the meaning and beliefs behind a community’s practices, you won’t present your idea in the context of their values and concerns and people won’t hear you.

“Their cup is not empty you can’t just pour your ideas into it.

It follows that if you want to attack poverty and if you want to empower women, you can do both with one approach: Help mothers protect their children. And the because the strongest instinct of a mother is to protect her children, poverty is the most disempowering force on earth. Poverty is not being able to save your children when mothers with more money could.

Poverty is not being able to protect your family.Huge number of notes/quotes I’ve taken from the book:

#THE MOMENT OF LIFT HOW TO#

I don’t even know how to frame the book but it’s one that I would love to keep. & the absolute importance of uplifting and empowering women in the fight against global poverty, improving healthcare and life as a whole. It’s simple, eloquent yet touches on so many issues and topics that I love reading about, framing them in ways I did not see. The book started off slow but the more I read, the more compelled and inspired I was.