We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.

People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.

We have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide.