Last Tuesday I stopped in my devious agenda and I had the great pleasure of listening to Cristobal Colon (La Fageda), and in particular to Pamela Hartigan , director Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship University of Oxford, and coauthor of The Power of Unreasonable People (published in Castilian with a title shocking: "The power of madness. Profitable companies that change the world ). This is a apostulado decided, thorough and extremely encouraging about the power of changing people who develop social innovation ( The Institute for Social Innovation at ESADE organized).
So I got a fit of irrazonalidad and the following afternoon I bought the book now read from Niger ... yeah, yeah Niger: a huge country and dry that I have the privilege of coming to work with women who struggle daily for a better life. Being here you away from the frantic pace unreasonable (the other) and you add (with heat) in a state of calm and gratitude for having the opportunities we have in Europe, having the opportunity to learn (and unlearn) forms of understanding life.
Niger is one of the world's poorest countries, ranked 174 out of 177 in Human Development Index conducted annually by the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP), life expectancy is 45 years, over 70% of the adult population read or write and 60% of the population survives on less than a dollar a day. Ethos indicators are always worse for women in Niger living under extreme conditions, yet many of them hold much of the country's survival, especially in rural areas.
In January Newspaper publishing, according to Unicef, one of every seven women in Niger dies while trying to be a mother , "The little or no education for women, the lack of controls Prenatal and malnutrition are the circumstances surrounding these high-risk pregnancies, they move parallel to the fate of their babies: 86% of babies who die at birth suffered pneumonia or systemic infection. Newborns whose mothers die in the first six weeks of life are much more likely to die immediately that children retain their mother. "And this, unfortunately, is only one button.
But I have met entrepreneurs Niger innovative and have an impact on the social development of the country that deserve to be recognized, among them an organization is admirable MECREF (Mutuelle d'Epargne et de Crédit des Femmes) , which since its creation in 1998 has benefited 34,043 women (!) with micro-management by a total of EUR 1,358,553 (!!). Irazonables women really are impressive.
Photo: Malick Sidibé "Femme Peul du Niger" (1970)
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