Catherine Renno IWED USA Development means advancement. Specifically in the work we do, sometimes from beginning to end, it means going in and helping to contribute the resources we have, the information we have to the discussion going on within the women's groups. Because they are already organizing, it's going on everywhere, everywhere this organizing is going on. So when we work in the field it's to bring what we have which is sometimes business skills, sometimes it's organizational advice or critique, many times it's product development because we work directly in income generating craft projects. We believe and we have seen over and over again that if you place income or create the means for income to continually generate into the hands of women, children are taken care of.
Women are smart, women are frugal.
Whatever it is, some women build roads, but it empowers those women to solve their own solutions. Because they know what the solutions are. So, development to me doesn't mean I have all the answers. It means I have some answers and we can network together. For example, we work primarily in product development and in selling the products in the marketplace.