The ‘Avon Ladies’ of Africa
A successful program from Living Goods in Uganda trains village women to sell medicines, fortified foods and other important goods
From Jacob Kushner / The Guardian: Since Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake in 2010, the US has spent $2.3 billion in aid money that has failed to alleviate poverty or help the impoverished nation recover. Bill Clinton led the global response to Haiti’s recovery and focused efforts on bringing international manufacturers to Haiti by building an expensive new port from which multinational corporations would bring in investments and stable jobs, but the project failed to do so. This strategy was a continuation of previous US solutions that have failed to bring economic independence to Haiti and have often had the opposite effect, leaving it worse.
A successful program from Living Goods in Uganda trains village women to sell medicines, fortified foods and other important goods
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Juan Mendez is a professor of human rights law at the Washington College of Law, American University in Washington, DC.
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