Clearly,
religious organizations have long sponsored missionary and humanitarian efforts in the developing world in ways far more extensive than educators have done.So often these have been inspired by women, making me wonder why concern
for global poverty has become a gendered activity.In their important book, Half the Sky (2009), (required reading
for Ghana participants), authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn
argue that the lack of global attention to the plight of women is the greatest, challenge in the world today.