More than half the world lives on less than $2 a day.
It’s a startling truth that can sometimes make us feel helpless. Yet poverty can and must be fought.
Our very own Dr Dennis Labayen, Field Operations Director, identified 5 effective ways to fight poverty. Dennis has been working since 1973 to create a sustainable and permanent solution to poverty in many poor communities around the world. After years of research and implementation Dennis and his team have fine-tuned a process called ‘Participatory Human Development‘. The process is so effective that other NGO’s are also being trained in these techniques and are adopting similar practices.
Here are his 5 ways to fight poverty.
1. The people directly affected by the problems or issues of poverty in the community have to be actively and authentically participating in the efforts to fight poverty. This means that the affected people themselves will be the major participants of the intervention to fight poverty. Not only the formal leaders need to be consulted, but also the affected themselves. Their worldview and situation should be taken into consideration and through facilitation they become part of the process of addressing and resolving their problems