Teach A Woman To Fish

Overcoming Poverty Worldwide

Ritu Sharma, Annapolis MD, Women Thrive Worldwide (WT), DC Nonprofit renamed 2008

• Palgrave McMillan, Multco 305.409 S5315t 2014

• 1990 21yo, internship at Friends of the Earth
• pg xv: "women in developed countries ... can push our governments to act better ... shop differently to reward companies doing good"
• pg004: Sri Lanka tsunami Dec 2004 pg 7: 35K dead, 823K homeless, 80% were women and girls
• pg008: National Women's Collective of Sri Lanka (NWCSL), association of hundreds of local women's organizations
• pg011: IDP, Internally Displaced Persons, camps controlled by males, women preyed upon
• pg014: GW Bush promises $950M for tsunami relief, WT tried for $10M for local women's groups ... failed
• pg021: Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) "facilitators"
• pg029: Home based work 25 to 60 percent of garment and textile workforce "because we can stay at home"
  • ? will their educated daughters want the same?
• pg029: 60 to 90% of working women in this "invisible" economy
• pg030: "last hired, first fired," as demand changes
• pg030: low demand, price competition drives down pay, example $6 to $1.70

• pg033: graph: tax revenues; US 2% products and services 55% income and investment gains, Sri Lanka 42% P&S, 18% IIG

  • this graph doesn't consider how the two economies are structured, few US people make and sell stuff, most work for wages

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