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What they do

BECAUSE WOMEN ARE MARGINALIZED IN SOCIETY, POVERTY OFTEN LEADS to MAKING HUMAN TRAFFICKING THE NORM IN MANY COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD. OUR DESIRE is to CREATE EMPLOYMENT, TRAIN, and CREATE A MARKETPLACE for THEIR GOODS SO THAT GIRLS and WOMEN HAVE OTHER CHOICES to LIVE AS SELF-SUFFICIENT PARTICIPANTS IN SOCIETY. BECAUSE RESEARCH INDICATES THAT WHEN ONE WOMAN is PULLED OUT of POVERTY SHE BRINGS FOUR PEOPLE WITH HER, OUR PRIMARY SUPPORT is for WOMEN. MANY of US GREW UP ON A CHARITABLE MODEL, KNOWN AS ONE-WAY GIVING, WHICH OFTEN FUELS DISTRUST AMONG THOSE WHO HAVE and THOSE THEY ARE SERVING. THIS MODEL of CHARITY is NECESSARY AT TIMES-- DURING DISASTERS and OTHER OCCASIONS. BUT WHEN CHARITY is USED AS THE ONLY FORM of HELPING, IT CAN NOT ONLY BE HARMFUL to THE COMMUNITY, BUT IT CAN BE HARMFUL to THE RECIPIENT of THIS KIND of GIVING. THEY ARE NO LONGER SEEN AS VALUED MEMBERS of SOCIETY BUT RATHER, AS WEAK ONES WAITING to BE RESCUED.WHAT IF THERE is A BETTER WAY? WHAT IF WE ADOPTED A