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When women stick together

1/18/2016

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What women can do together is stronger and more lasting than anything they can do apart. There is a story being told in the media about poor women who qualify for welfare but have declined the benefits. It took months for social services professionals to understand why though completely these qualified women, particularly those of color, were not signing up for government assistance. The numbers receiving assistance were declining significantly yet the socioeconomic statistics remained unchanged or getting worse. The answer, right under their noses, was simple. These women were coming together to help one another with food, shelter, child care, rides to work, household supplies, small bridge loans, diapers, medicine, hair care, and most anything else imaginable for survival. They formed an informal network of scratching one another's backs. And this informal system of assisting one another has worked splendidly. Taking the steps to receive government assistance proved too cumbersome, intrusive, inconsistent, and uncertain. Instead they lean on one another. When one person has more than they need at the moment they give, barter, or loan to other women in need.

This is but one example. We have heard of women loaning money to one another to start small businesses in third world countries. Real money that is loaned and paid back with hardly a default among them. As far back as we can remember, women have been awesome sisters to one another. Like Ruth from the bible, who gave up her home country and all that was familiar to her in order to stay in a foreign land to take care of her widowed mother-in-law. She vowed to never leave her and she never did.

Women are natural help mates. We are willing to sacrifice so much for those around us. When women get together we have a natural instinct to seek out pain and suffering and do anything within our power to help in healing. We are able to do this despite having our own wounded wings. Our desire is to make our environments better and more loving. We were made this way. And the world is a better place because we live among all human kind. Our joy comes from knowing we are not alone. We draw our strength from our sisters of every kind. We share a special bond and know the tremendous value we leave behind.

The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.
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Ellen Ringer Turner
1/23/2016 01:21:26 pm

This is how we strengthen our communities. I have been a recipient of women helping me and I have been able to give back. It is a great feeling to help others.

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La Detra White
1/23/2016 01:23:53 pm

Yes what you say is so true. Thank you fir sharing.

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Monchel Hollins link
1/19/2018 09:30:13 am

Wow!!!! As I read the blog in its entirety tears 😭 of empathy streamed from my face. I remember when I was became awakened on the systematic oppression it had on my entire family. I was born and raised in generatioal poverty. And quite honestly if I don't keep GRINDING Im just a just a few months from falling back into the pits. I declined governmental assistance when clearly we qualified to prove to myself that with Gods help and faith I can leave my kids a legacy worth being proud of. And I'm not speaking about money but a sense of worth and the tools to keep what I'm starting going. La Detra sharing this story of these women blessed my soul because it's proving that it can be done if we make an effort to do it. Keep shedding light so women like me can have the hope and strength to keep GRINDING!

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1/19/2018 09:31:37 am

Amen sister soldier!

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