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Partnership,
Not CharityA FeelGood
Journey
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There are approximately 1 billion
people in the world who cant get
enough food to remain alive.
Why?
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Fact or Fiction?
Hunger is the result of a global food shortage.
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Fiction
The world produces more than enough food for everyone and,
if we act wisely, can continue to do so for future
generations.
The world community possesses the financial and technical
resources necessary to end hunger.
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Fact or Fiction?
Hunger is simply an issue of food.
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Fiction
Ending hunger is central to an entire nexus of issues
including
family income, health, education, environmental
sustainability,
human rights and social justice. During the 1990s, advocates
for
each of these issues came to recognize that only in solving
all
these issues together can any of them be solved.
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Fact or Fiction?
Treating hungry people as mouths to feed
perpetuates hunger.
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Fact
Conventional approaches to ending hunger are based on a
framework of thinking that fundamentally misidentifies who
hungry people truly are. Treating hungry people as mouths tofeed
as passive recipients or beneficiaries, dependent on
outside aid--literally reinforces the conditions of
powerlessness
that give rise to hunger.
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Fact or Fiction?
Hunger is a denial of selfhood.
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Fact
Those living in conditions of hunger most of whom are
women are subjugated, marginalized and disempowered
conditions in which centuries of humiliation can destroy
anysense of autonomous selfhood, of being worthy of the most
basic human rights. Those of us not living in poverty are
also
diminished in our selfhood. We are diminished by feelings of
guilt or are cut off from experiencing our shared humanity
with
a large portion of our human family.
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Fact or Fiction?
Hunger is not a problem to be solved,
but an opportunity to unleash the human spirit.
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How we think about the causes of hunger, and
how we think about thepeople who live in hunger,
determines how we respondto hunger .
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Two Paradigms, Two Outcomes
Old Paradigm
The Cause
Physical: Lack of food,
services
The People
Resigned, helpless, passive,
despondent, dependent
The Response
Service delivery; Charity
The Result
Dependency and the
perpetuation of hunger
New Paradigm
The Cause
Systemic: social & mental
barriers
The People
Resilient, wise, resourceful,
creative, productive
The Response
Empowerment; Partnership
The Result
Self-reliance and the
end of hunger
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Mobilization
for self-
reliant action
Womens empowerment as
key agents for social change
Forging
alliances
with local
govts
End of poverty and hunger
Integral, self-reliant andsustainable
development
Three Pillars of Partner-
focused Development
