My Nonprofit Reviews

I've been passionate about gender issues and root causes of chronic persistent hunger and extreme poverty since the late 1970s. CHOICE is one of the very best organizations around that is effective and strategic. CHOICE's model is about empowering its village partners in figuring out their vision for their future and then supporting them through leadership training and other tools, to realize those visions. This model works.

The other thing I love about CHOICE is this: too often people in developed countries think we have so much to offer "poor" people, as if we had a superior way of life. Of course we have access to numerous opportunities and technologies and those scales are unbalanced, but the CHOICE model really allows those of us in developed countries to appreciate the tremendous assets, skills, and rich traditions of our human family who lives in poverty. The most resourceful, creative, and hard-working people I've met are those who scrape together what they need daily to keep their families alive. Often, in developed countries, we seem to lack a deep sense of connectedness to the world, so while our hunger is more of a spiritual nature, we have a great deal to learn from those in other parts of the world. Go on an expedition with CHOICE! Heal yourself. Change the world! CHOICE is doing just that.