Quotes by Ann Cotton - Page 1

Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.
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Faith
Intuition
Listen
Feeling
Gut
Gut Feeling
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Confidence is instrumental to those climbing out of poverty.
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Climbing
Instrumental
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For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.
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Improving
Manage
Central
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At base, financial literacy is inextricably connected to control over one's future.
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Future
Connected
Financial
Literacy
Control
Base
Over
Inextricably
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All children everywhere deserve the opportunity that is unlocked for them by education.
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Deserve
Unlocked
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I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.
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Young Women
Communities
Effect
Transformative
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Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
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Change
Failure
Giving
Giving Up
Greedy
Social
Social Change
Trying
Life Change Your
Life Failure Your
Endlessly
Enriched
Lies
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You need to listen to the people experiencing the problems, and their ideas need to crowd out the words of the 'can't be done-ers.'
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Crowd
Experiencing
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If you can't send your daughter to school when you know it will help her, you feel a sense of failure, and you feel that failure deeply.
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Send
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Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.
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Confidence
Grain
Poverty
Diminishes
Offered
Plough
Store
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You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.
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Collaboration
Aspirations
Solved
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In the family pattern, men support boys and women support girls, and because women have far fewer financial resources, there is less money to invest in girls.
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Fewer
Financial Resources
Invest
Less Money
Pattern
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Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.
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Fundamental
Human Right
Promises
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If women have an income, they will invest a higher proportion of that income in their children than men do. So you do get those societal returns very quickly.
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Income
Proportion
Invest
Women Men Children
Returns
Societal
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The world has proved enough times that it can scale cruelty and violence. Compassion and kindness can and must be scaled to create a world of justice for children.
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Compassion
Cruelty
Scale
Proved
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The culture of philanthropy is alive and very well in Africa. International aid strengthens and extends it, but in the communities where I have spent time, it is all-pervasive.
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Philanthropy
Aid
Time Where Culture
Communities
Strengthens
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Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.
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Leadership
Eye
Servant
Team
Africa
Ball
Case
Cause
Never Take
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For more than 20 years, Camfed has supported a generation of African girls and women with access to secondary and higher education, employment opportunities, and, ultimately, into positions of leadership.
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Employment
Higher Education
African
Positions
Secondary
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When I first worked in Zimbabwe, I was a complete novice. I was doing a study, and I continued to learn more and more through the years. And where I have learned most is in the village, from the communities.
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Village
Zimbabwe
Communities
More And More
Novice
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My journey started with the understanding that poor parents share the universal desire for education for their children. No family in our experience has ever turned down educational support for their daughter.
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Educational
My Journey
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Camfed has worked for more than two decades in partnership with poor families, transforming this desire for girls' education into reality, and showing the measurable benefits of girls' education for all of us.
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Benefits
Decades
Partnership
Transforming
Measurable
Showing
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Poverty is more than a material experience; it's a psychological state as well, one that is infused with anxiety. And decision-making is very complex because every decision you make has an impact on your future and survival.
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Decision
Impact
Poverty
Psychological
Survival
Complex
Material
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Money is hardly neutral. Its connection to power makes it a highly charged social phenomenon and a mediator of relationships. Because it has historically been controlled by men, it has given men a tool for controlling women.
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Controlled
Phenomenon
Men Women Power
Neutral
Women Power Money
Charged
Power Men Women
Connection
Hardly
Highly
Historically
Mediator
Relationships
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I am honoured to join education innovators like Ms. Vicky Colbert, Dr. Madhav Chavan, and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed as the fourth WISE Prize for Education Laureate. I accept this prize on behalf of the million girls Camfed is committed to supporting through secondary education.
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Wise
Behalf
Committed
Fourth
Innovators
Prize
Secondary Education
Dr
Honoured
Join
Laureate
Ms
Secondary
Sir
Supporting
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The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economics because it's holding families, communities, and nations back. The chiefs are often a bridge between the traditional and the modern world and are very powerful implements to change.
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Chiefs
Exclusion
Modern World
Nations
Powerful
Traditional
Bridge
Communities
Holding
Issue
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Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.
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Exclusive
Literacy
Vulnerability
Widows
Hardly
Slide
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The work being done by Linklaters to help organizations understand keys to success in the development sector serves as an important international affairs issue and crucial element in how all of us work to support service provision in impoverished communities in a lasting and effective way.
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Being Done
Crucial
International Affairs
Lasting
Provision
Affairs
Communities
Effective
Effective Way
Element
Organizations
Impoverished
Sector
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The aim of militants such as Boko Haram, whose very name means 'Western education is a sin,' is to sow hatred and enmity between Muslim and Christian communities, which have co-existed largely peacefully for generations. Education, in particular the education of women, is a threat to Boko Haram's goals.
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Aim
Enmity
Generations
Particular
Sin
Western
Communities
Largely
Muslim
Peacefully
Sow
Whose
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Camfed graduates are active in their villages using their skills and resources to improve as many lives as possible. They are teaching financial literacy to marginalized women and bringing vital health care information to rural schoolchildren. Through example, they are demonstrating the power of philanthropy.
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Health
Active
Demonstrating
Example
Financial
Graduates
Health Care
Information
Literacy
Marginalized
Philanthropy
Resources
Skills
Bringing
Possible
Rural
Schoolchildren
Villages
Vital
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At Camfed, we have focused on transforming the vicious cycle of poverty in many rural African communities into a cycle of opportunity. Alumnae of Camfed's programs go on to become role models and mentors for future generations of young students. We call this the 'virtuous circle,' and we know this is a model that works.
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Generations
Models
Role Models
Transforming
Vicious
Virtuous
African
Circle
Communities
Cycle
Future Generations
Programs
Mentors
Rural
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There are 45 million children in Africa who are not in school. While other children are learning, exploring, and growing in the myriad ways that children were meant to grow, these children are trapped in a life of constant struggle. Without education, how can they be expected to escape such struggle? How can their children?
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Constant
Exploring
Trapped
Life Education Learning
Escape
Myriad
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All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet.
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Jobs
Advantage
Intellectual
Poor
Poor People
Poverty
Status Quo
Taking Advantage
Rare
Countries
Elite
Maintain
Planet
Quo
Schools
Status
Systems
Understands
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The organization I founded in 1993, Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), was in large part inspired by the generosity shown to me by a community in a village in Zimbabwe. During my visit to Mola to research girls' exclusion from education, the people of Mola fed me, shaded me, walked and talked with me for hours each day.
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Community
Each Day
Exclusion
Female
Generosity
Hours
Inspired
Organization
Research
Village
Zimbabwe
Founded
Campaign
Fed
Large
Large Part
Shown
Talked
Visit
Walked
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The prevailing view was that girls were outside of school because of the resistance of families to their education. But when I visited a local village, what everyone told me - the chiefs, the parents, the children - was that girls weren't in school because it was the boys that had a better chance of getting paid work in the future.
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Chiefs
Prevailing
Resistance
Village
Education Future Work
Better Chance
Education Work Future
Visited
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Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communities, schools, and national Ministries of Education to build a system of protection and support around girls, ensuring that they receive the education that is their right. Financial support is provided alongside a social support system.
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Financial
Financial Support
Protection
Support
Build
African
Alongside
Works
Communities
Ensuring
Model
National
Provided
Receive
Schools
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To expose the hardships experienced by children who are deprived of the right to attend school, Camfed has produced a series of films about educational exclusion. 'Every Child Belongs in School' provides a glimpse into the lives of children who have been forced by poverty to leave school at a very young age and take a difficult life path.
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Deprived
Educational
Exclusion
Glimpse
Path
Poverty
Series
Young Age
Attend
Belongs
Experienced
Expose
Forced
Hardships
Produced
Provides
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I hear, 'But why do poor people make such bad decisions?' But actually, their decision-making can be far more complex than that of the better-off in many ways. They're not financially illiterate: they're constantly weighing up choices based on the reality of poverty. Somehow the international development community has resisted accepting this.
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Choices
Decision Making
Development
Illiterate
International
Poor
Poor People
Poverty
Weighing
Decisions
Based
Constantly
Complex
Financially
Resisted
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I recall an 18-year-old girl named Rachel in Zambia who was given a grant to start a business of her choosing. She decided to breed goats so she could sell the meat and the milk, and donate the kids to orphan children. She herself was an orphan, stepping into young adulthood with no resources, and it was her first opportunity to earn her own money.
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Girl
Opportunity
Business
Adulthood
Decided
Donate
Meat
Milk
Orphan
Resources
Young
Business Money Start
Named
Breed
Choosing
Earn
Sell
Grant
Her
Herself
Recall
She
Start
Stepping
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