WFWP also looks at the global and historic perspectives that clearly reflect gender discrimination and the serious consequences these enculturated problems create for everyone man, woman and child alike. Therefore we work to raise the status of women worldwide by working to create a focus on the need for true partnerships between men and women in all areas of life in the family, in our communities, in the work place, in public service, government and beyond. From the global perspective, women s greatest enemy is poverty poverty of body, poverty of mind and poverty of spirit. The face of poverty worldwide is feminine. Money alone is not the solution.
Information alone is neither, nor is church, synagogue or mosque.
Poverty is a complex problem requiring changes in both individuals and their social environments. We address problems primarily through the empowerment of women rather than through the traditional feminist approach of insisting others change the way they treat women. We see the locus of power to change as being primarily within. We believe in the power of the human spirit, the same power that those who wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognized, that has challenged society, creating social change through many historic persons men and women. Women are inherently practical beings, naturally desiring and able to turn the movements of the heart into caring and life-changing acts.