Educating a child is a significant investment, and the traditional roles that men and women play imply that sons are most investment-worthy. Worldwide, there are 115 girls to every 100 boys out of school, and of the girls who are in school, 20% will not complete primary level education. As a result, women worldwide are less educated than men to the extent that they make up two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people. For the girls left behind, they are likely to marry young, have more children and generate little income.When we lift women out of poverty they can serve as powerful agents of social change. A woman is more likely than her husband to put her earned income to good use. Her children are more likely to be educated and healthy. When a woman has more decision making power and financial resources, she is better able to plan her pregnancies and have fewer children, improving the quality of life for her whole family.
In subsistence economies, water does not flow from a tap, daycare services are largely nonexistent, and feeding the family is a constant struggle. Much of the world still sees domestic work as “women’s work,” which can include collecting water, caring for the children, or harvesting a field. These many hours of hard labor are unpaid, and if a woman should seek income it will likely be through informal employment with small returns. As a result, the majority of the world’s poor are women, and they have fewer opportunities to become economically self-sufficient.
If you knew there was a way you could help these girls and women and also create abundance for yourself, would you want to know more about it? Humanity Unites Brilliance is a humanitarian for-benefit business that provides food, water, education and micro-loans to those in dire need. HUB offers an opportunity for multiple streams of network, affiliate and retail income to its members. The purpose of the company is to end scarcity in your world, reintroducing and maintaining abundance around you. Ending Scarcity will result in food and clean water being available to everyone on the planet, with education available to all, and clarity in financial literacy stimulating trade through micro loans to hundreds of millions of people.
One out of every five children currently does not have primary schooling in the world. HUB impact partners are delivering primary education to refugees, orphans and slum children. Equally imperative is to expand secondary education. Collaborating with impact partner Youth Action International, HUB supports young African girls and former child-soldiers with empowerment programs. The ENABLED project offers vocational training for physically and mentally handicapped post-conflict refugees.
Unregulated irrigation along the shores of Lake Victoria in has drastically lowered the availability of clean water. Women and children become critically ill through lack of water or usage of dirty water. The most simple way to catch, purify and deliver clean water is through rain catchers. With the support of impact partners like Raincatcher.org, HUB has installed 6,000 to 24,000 liter raincatcher drums at rural school sites, with guttering on the roofs and a filter system fitted into the drum. Now children and their families can have clean water for drinking, playing, washing and gardening.
Micro-loans are used to help people living in extreme poverty start or expand a range of tiny businesses such as weaving and tailoring, husking rice, tea and coffee production, and delivering cell phone services to remote villages. HUB follows the vision of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr Mohammed Yunus and Micro Credit Summit and Results founder, Sam Daley Harris, to see micro loans and financial training available to everyone.
I have been a HUB member and investor since May 2008 and I am truly grateful to be able to make a difference with my monthly contributions.
Friday, December 18, 2009
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