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Working To Empower - September 2, 2009
"We are equal in our abilities and value; however, physical, economical, structural and legal inequalities make opportunity inequal. It is our obligation, by viewing all humanity as innately equal, to strive whole-heartedly to empower those who have been disempowered" - Cochrane, Founder of WTE
Working To Empower is a non-profit and non-governmental organization working to empower sustainable, community-based change. Local needs are matched with locally based proposals by members of the community. Working To Empower aims to make proposals a reality so as to facilitate the implementation of locally demanded projects. We fundamentally assert the equality of all peoples and are rooted in the three core values of Responsibility, Respect, and Sustainability. It is our motivation to equalize these resources in order to empower people so that needed social changes can occur.
Resource Sharing Program
Working To Empower is creating new documents/resources relating to HIV/AIDS continually. These documents are now being translated into twenty-eight languages for the purpose of sharing these resources freely with organizations on a global scale. Currently the program has connected into eighty nations with over five-hundred organizations receiving one or more of the translated series of documents on a weekly basis. We offer over 70 materials, all free and translations are slowly being offered for download on the website. Please visit our website to view our materials: www.workingtoempower.org
To sign up for weekly mail-outs and also get all continued resources/translations, please send an e-mail to workingtoempower@gmail.com
Working to Empower places sustainability and community-based empowerment at the centre of its core vision. We are working to ensure that communities are able to access the knowledge, skills and tools to empower each other, with a focal involvement on HIV/AIDS education. As we train young men and women in the refugee camps we are working in, members of these teams are selected by their peers to become HIV/AIDS educators. For such work, they will receive a small incentive and will engage their communities to train others to become HIV/AIDS educators. We hope that this will spark local action around HIV/AIDS and will result in sustainable education initiatives.
As WTE evolves, we will continue to place the values of Responsibility, Respect and Sustainability at the centre of each of our projects. Working in equality with local partners, we will strive to empower local, community-based action that is context-specific.
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