"As a rule, ethnic conflicts spring from poverty and the lack of perspective".
What you look for in a hero is not some vow of poverty, but some sense of perspective and proportion".
Communicate and understand the issues of poverty from the perspective of these people.
In discussing her reasons for coming to SSA, Angela explained that she was attracted to the school's history of studying poverty from the perspective of those experiencing it "I wanted to study poverty in a way that was very functional and I didn't want to get bogged down in theory as many poverty scholars do," Angela said.
The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, Italy, published in 2007 a report on 'child poverty in perspective, an overview of child well-being in rich countries', see UNICEF (2007).
AUDIO: Listen now A 2007 UNICEF report - 'Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-being in Rich Countries' - measured and compared overall child well-being across six dimensions: maternal well-being, health and safety, education, peer and family relationships, behaviours and risks, and young people's subjective sense of their own well-being.
Selection of the participants was done purposefully, based on a number of principles: participants represented a range of key mental health organizations in Uganda; they held specialized knowledge or had specific experience related to mental health policy, services and poverty; or they represented a variety of perspectives on mental health, poverty and stigma.
Seeing poverty from the perspective of someone living it is a critical step in understanding it, and ultimately designing ways to end it.
In that context, redirecting part of the [decreasing] development effort and resources toward resilience may indirectly be detrimental from a poverty alleviation perspective".
