[Dialogue] Wow ! World Food Prize

[Karl Hess]

Lucia Ann,

As an outsider to the ICA who has worked for a long time, I think the 
basic model of integrated village development is by far the most 
powerful method of alleviating poverty at the village level.  How 
much of it was invented by the ICA, I don't know, but others on this 
list do.  Doing only one aspect - health, water, income, education, 
housing, technology - results in limitations from the other aspects 
not being dealt with.  So microlending is a part of virtually all 
development programs.

Not only that, working with a single manifestation of the problem 
doesn't deal with the fundamental issue of the oppression of women 
which underlies all the above.

The Hunger Project consciously (albeit not publicly) has modelled 
their on-the-ground programs on the International Exposition of Rural 
Development's conclusions.  I've visited ICA programs and Hunger 
Project programs and they are strikingly similar except that the 
Hunger Project villages don't sing much - a weakness in my view.

In my view, the Hunger Project took the insights of the ICA to a new 
level.  And next weekend about 1000 of us will be in New York 
starting our work on the MDG's.

Check out the web site www.thp.org to get more specifics.  They 
definitely do accept money, but have found that interns mostly 
interfere with the work.  Volunteers are wanted everywhere, but I'm 
quite sure all volunteers are used in their country of residence.  No 
expatriates working for the Hunger Project.

Karl

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>Re:  the Grameen model,
>1.  what info would any of you have of organizations built on this model?
>2.  if persons wanted to include any of such organizations in their 
>charitable giving, priority suggestions?
>3.  do any of these organizations accept interns?
>
>One issue behind this last question particularily is that we are 
>emphasizing contextual theological education here a PSR.
>
>Thanks for contacts and for taking the time to share them with me.
>
>Lucia Ann/Shan
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>Lucia Ann McSpadden, Ph.D.
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>From: Dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net 
>[mailto:Dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of James Wiegel
>Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 9:14 AM
>To: Colleague Dialogue
>Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Wow ! World Food Prize
>
>Hi,
>
>Are these small ponds responsible for shrimp everywhere??
>
>Tomorrow I am doing the second half of a strategic planning with 
>SELF (Self Employment Loan Fund) here in Phoenix.  They are built 
>off the Grameen Bank model . . .
>
>Nancy Trask <n.trask at mchsi.com> wrote:
>
>The World Food Prize was awarded this evening at the Iowa Capital to 
>Dr. Mododugu V. Gupta, for spreading the science & practice of 
>fisheries even in small ponds throughout Asia, especially South & 
>Southeast Asia.
>
>Now, feeling like I'm in a heavenly flashback, I am viewing the Iowa 
>Public TV program following that broadcast -- about the origins of 
>the Grameen Bank!!!  They are saying it is necessary to image the 
>poor not as victims, but potential micro-entrepreneurs.  And a newer 
>program in India called SKS, which requires groups of 5 women to 
>take their training & their loans together, then when one may have a 
>difficult week, the other 4 can cover her payment.  It's built on 
>trust amongst that little group.  And their repayment rates are 
>great!
>
>I just have to marvel that I am seeing this on my TV here in 
>Winterset, IA.  Gives me a feeling of hope for the world.
>Nancy Trask
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