If you`ve got to my age, you`ve probably had your heart broken many times. So it`s not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
If you don`t want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.
I`ve a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.
I think the point about ActionAid is what it`s asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.
I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I`m trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.
If you`ve got to my age, you`ve probably had your heart broken many times. So it`s not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
