Changing My Thinking About Material Poverty

By Joseph Antwi

The things which have been shared I wouldn't say have been entirely new. But the angle from which the information has come has been very challenging. And so one of the first things I thought of doing, and I think I asked the question very early on in the training, was how to get members of my team to go through the same kind of training because we work essentially with materially poor people, using the church centered savings groups.

And I realize that there is a lot we would need to, not to change in the way we do things, but in our thinking. The training opened my eyes to the wrong ways of handling the poor, imposing on them, instead of helping them to liberate themselves and see the possibility of the material poverty that they are in. So that has been a real shake up for me.