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The end of extreme poverty in reality, by 4 October 2015
On 4 October 2015, I'll be 50 years old. My goal is to consign extreme poverty to the history books by that time. You have to be a Gaia member to post comments.
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This is a goal after my own heart… a goal that strikes at one of the roots of a great injustice and of social dysfunctionality.
But it will require a kind of team work that does not yet seem to exist in the social change movement. Effective team work has been in use in business world for two centuries to achieve stupendous feats of construction and organisation in the practical world. It is time we adopted some of those techniques and be less intent on on chasing the experience of “blissed out” spiritual states.
Janos,
You're absolutely right when you say that the fulfilment of this goal will require teamwork, of a kind that is rare as yet in the conscious capitalism community. However….
….The Hunger Project's success, in a number of African and Asian countries, has demonstrated that we do already have the answers to what it will take.
As far as I'm concerned, the most immediate challenge is to unconceal the blocks to the rapid spread of The Hunger Project's methodology, so that those blocks can be removed. If that can be achieved, then I believe this goal can be realised.
All the best,
Patrick
THE most immediate challenge - IS to unconceal the blocks to the rapid spread of The Hunger Project's methodology, so that those blocks can be removed.
Give us more detail as to what you believe those blocks comprise !
Michael,
Good question!
And one without a pat answer.
Here's the broad brush version:
The Hunger Project has an awesome blueprint. They've had it, and been using it, for many years. For some reason, it hasn't been widely picked up elsewhere.
This may be down to other organisations and people being suspicious (“surely it couldn't be that simple”). It may be down to The Hunger Project being protective of its intellectual property (“we're the only people who can REALLY deliver this stuff”). Or it may be a combination of the two.
Either way, my aim is to have that blueprint replicate itself like wildfire across the African continent. What that will take throws up a whole other set of questions.
I guess my simplistic view of it is that the Vision, Commitment and Action Workshop (which is the core of The Hunger Project's strategy) needs to be being led by people who were participants in it a year or two before. Right now, I believe, it's typically led by a core member of the THP team, which causes a significant constraint on scalability.
Bottom line is that it's Eli Goldratt's Theory of Constraints: find the bottleneck; subordinate the whole process to the bottleneck; find ways of increasing capacity at the bottleneck.
There you go. Job done ;-)
Namaste,
Patrick
Constraints?
Children learn in school, they can take a bottle…drop in a lighted match….put a hard boiled egg on top of the opening… then the egg can change shape, and be sucked in through the bottleneck…arriving on the inside, in it's original form….
Let the children take it from there…they understand. Talk about a team…give them a blueprint and look-out.
For other methodology suggestions, I would refer anyone to founding executive of The Hunger Project, Lynne Twist. Her vision, ethics, and her heart, demonstrate the utmost compassion for the world. She is a wonderful teacher, and her spirit spreads through the rainforests of Equador, and across Africa…etc. etc. etc.
I truly believe she is the purest of the pure.
Lynne's book: “The Soul Of Money ” is a must read. She is absolutely brilliant, and her heart warming stories of “poverty”, changed through empowerment…are…….
I have no word.
So I might say…
Empower those, who are OF the egg…everything else will take care of itself.
Lynne Twist's book gives me a cue to join in. I've read it and admired her achievements and learned from her attitude to money generally. And Patrick's prompted me to read more about The Hunger Project's methodology.
O you who are a part of me!
pray tell me, what wisdom do you have to teach me?
… and the snake thus spake …
The Penny On Trust has been established as a “brick in the wall”
of the Penny On campaign.
The Penny On Brand has been established as a “brick in the wall”
of the Penny On campaign.
The Penny On 4-concept has been established as a “brick in the wall”
of the Penny On campaign.
What has thus far not been established IS the clear, concise & coherent
message of the “cement” , which binds all those bricks together.
A simple message of global self-less compassion for ALL in the world
who are worse off than ourselves and, but for the grace of god, would also
include ourselves.
A simple message of the equality of thinking of one woman, one man.
A simple message of TRUST, as with the trust that is established between
a child & it's mother and that which is established between them and the father,
to further establish the “brick of the family”.
Bricks of individuals, bricks of families, bricks of nations of families & …
bricks of the family of nations.
ALL bound together, in balance & harmony, in a simple model of the Penny On Wall.
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