John Sommer
Empowerment is the key
1 June 2009
Alliance magazine
During the early 1970s, when I was living in India and working for the Ford Foundation, I had occasion to spend a couple of days visiting an unusually impressive rural boarding school led by a widely known and respected Gandhian gentleman and supported by NGOs. He was working in a particularly downtrodden part of India, where the dullness in people’s eyes, indeed in their entire expression and being, spoke of centuries of poverty and oppression.
