Use Your Gifts

I was in Colombia originally as an activist, as an organizer, and I was a Fulbright researcher. I was there to fight against the largest coal mine in the world with a bunch of frontline defenders from Wayuu communities, indigenous communities that were displaced by the mine, and Afro-Colombian communities. I realized that giving women income is a way to be part of the social movement against the coal mine. Because if these communities are strong, and they have their own sources of income, and they don't have to rely on handouts from corrupt politicians and from mining companies, then we can maybe prevent communities from being so vulnerable in the first place.