The Girl Revolution blog posted a story discussing the many ways people in the West can help women who are suffering in the third world. From that post…

I, a middle-class American housewife, can literally support a war rape survivor The Congo for $27 a month. I’m most excited about doing this one with Ainsley, due to the letter exchange. We can save a woman and make her economically independent for $27, and she’ll be our pen pal. Ainsley and I already signed up for this one. We can’t wait to find out who our sister is, where she lives and what her life is like.

This is powerful stuff. How is this CIC? CIC solutions will remove the barriers and improve the connections between the end points in the system in question. Here, the various websites mentioned connect a middle class American housewife with a third world woman who needs her help. Think about that.

There are other principles as well. The focus on cause rather than symptoms. Cooperation rather than confrontation. The leveraging of the relative value of $27 in America versus the value of $27 in the third world.

She ends the piece with this and she clearly gets it.

This is, honestly, the most powerful thing I’ve heard in a long time. We can DO something to change the situation for women and girls around the world. Something effective. Something meaningful. Something important. Something that doesn’t just change a woman, but a family, a lineage, a country, a world. It’s exponential change. Exponential change for $27.

It is really encouraging to see these principles at work solving problems in the real world.