What would we do without Poverty?

 

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Poverty

Poverty is the systematic or systemic marginalization, exclusion or isolation of a community, group or section of society from access to public goods.

Brain Drain & Voice of the African Child

 

BRAIN DRAIN & VOICE OF THE AFRICAN CHILD

Why is brain drain a real problem? Why is it that the African child seeks refuge in the west? It is where they find their voice! When educators in Africa gave voice to the dreams of the African child, they help society speak into being a new reality.

Managing Wealth

 

Managing Wealth

The rich man gathers an inheritance for his children. The children spend their entitlement and become poor. The distraught children of the poor and disenfranchised in society are driven by dreams and aspirations to work hard and become wealthy.

Their Children will go to school

Their Children will go to school

 

Successful people may be school dropouts. But of this one thing I am sure. Their children will go to school.

The resolution of an issue is in its definition.

 

The resolution of an issue is in its definition.

How to introduce and establish change in a Hostile Environment

 

How to introduce and establish change in a Hostile Environment

There are many approaches to introducing change. However, establishing change in a hostile environment demands that the change goes an extra mile to create a new reality. The following steps will be helpful

First, study the values that underpin the current practices. What you see is often just the tip of the iceberg supported by a substructure of belief systems. Understanding the scaffolding, without being judgmental of the practice, arms you with sufficient insight to address the roots that create the outcomes.

Second, pragmatically determine those values that are ethical that should continue and those that need to be challenged and changed. Take care not to “throw the baby out with the bath water” and be keenly aware that your personal biases in the situation do not always qualify as right or even righteous. There are multiple lenses in which reality exists and can be projected. The ideal calls for prudence rather than change for the sake of change.  

Third identify the mechanisms, publics and environmental institutions that can be used to lobby and build support to dismantle undesirable practices.  

Fourth, construct an institutional culture, structure, policy, procedures and systems that introduce, surround, protect and support sustainable change within the environment.

Slaying the dragon of Corruption

 

Slaying the dragon of Corruption

Corruption is a behavioral construct supported by a values system. In theory, to dismantle corruption one would need to deconstruct its support system and replace it with values and mechanisms that promote, sustain and reward ethical behavior in which ethics conform to the beneficence of the greater social good.