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Reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty throughout the world is clearly one of the great moral challenges of our time. Although the issue is by no means absent from what we study and teach, as educators in the United States we appear to be falling short in the task of ensuring that our students are adequately informed about world poverty, its consequences, and the ways in which it can be reduced. Is it possible that some of the reluctance to deal with the topic stems from the fact that it may have uncomfortable conclusions for our own lives?
If we take seriously the idea that the value of a human life does not diminish when we cross national boundaries, then we ought to be giving a much higher priority to reducing world poverty. I have in mind a broad re-envisioning of what we teach.
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Nor should we shy away from reconsidering our emphasis on teaching in fields that have timeless artistic and cultural value. It is legitimate to ask: In a situation in which more people die each year from poverty-related causes than died in any one year during World War II, how much should we be spending on the refinement of our artistic sensitivities and those of our students?
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5. Triphonie said ‘Now I can weave and am learning how I can make other improvements through small loans. The social aspect of coming together with others is very important. We learn to become self-reliant and about how to start a business. Now I can help my family, buying food, medicine and clothes’.
6. Case Study- Speciose Speciose is 33 years old and is President of COFAVU run by COCOF, a Trócaire supported cooperative of women from rural households. COFAVU supports women in setting up their own small businesses.
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8. For the 2004 Lenten campaign, Trócaire focused on the genocide in Rwanda. Josienne was the young girl who featured on the box that year. She was 13 years old. Case study- Josienne
Triphonie is 43 years old and lives with her husband Frodouald and six children near Butare in Rwanda. Her family live in a small house made of wood and clay in rural Rwanda. The house is dark and bare with clay floors and walls, small windows and very little furniture. There is a yard at the back of the house with a kitchen off this and some sheds. Triphonie shares her kitchen with a fully grown pregnant cow. People are not allowed to keep animals outdoors, so this is the only place she can keep it. She got this cow from a government scheme for the extreme poor. Under this scheme she must give the first born to a neighbour. When the cow gives birth again, she will get to keep it.
Triphonie’s family home does not have any electricity and the family cannot afford much kerosene, so use this sparingly and spend many evenings in darkness. Only 6% of Rwandans have electricity. ‘We can’t afford much kerosene so we buy enough for 2-3 days a time. This costs 100 RF (Rwandan Francs = .12c/ 10p).’ Frodouald and Triphonie support their family of six on about 6000 RF (€7.50/ £6.53) per week. In other words, this family are living on less than 1000RF (€1.07/ 93p) per day. Triphonie and Frodouald have some land where they plant cassava (a common African root vegetable) beans, sorghum and pineapples. The bulk of this is sold in the local market and they use the remainder to feed their family. The children have two small meals per day and Triphonie and her husband have just one, in order to ensure that the children can eat. Every day, the family eat the same thing - cassava paste and cassava leaves. Cassava is a common root vegetable grown in Africa. In 2007 Triphonie joined a basket-weaving group run by one of Trócaire’s partner’s COCOF. COCOF support 50 of the poorest women in the community with saving and loans.
Speciose’s job as President is voluntary. She was elected to this role because she introduced the cooperative to basket weaving in the realisation that there is not enough land to share and to ensure a decent living for the coop. Speciose is married with four children. Before she joined COCOF she was a farmer onland producing cassava and beans. At the time she was very poor and often did not have enough money to provide for her family. She said’ we couldn’t produce enough food which was a problem for us. We grew soya but there wasn’t enough for my family’. Speciose said ‘we have to pay for school and it is expensive. We don’t get any help with this. Because our kids are still in primary school we do our best to pay but we find it hard to buy the extra school equipment and clothes for school.’
Josienne was three when the genocide occurred and she lost her dad, her two brothers, Theobald (11), and Emmanuel (9) and her sister Alice (7) when they were killed in a church.
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