my garbage is someone's meal

It's Wednesday morning. It's windy outside. It's also very hot. There are many things that I am planning on doing today. First, I'm going to help Harriet clean out some of the back rooms here in the compound so we can move beds on Friday. Then I'm going to order a bunch of furniture: metal shelves, stools, poles for mosquito nets. Then it will be time for English class. I'm going to leave you here with some of my manifesto on empowerment. Let me know what you think.
LGH Grows: From mission to vision

Mission: Empowering Africans through the encouragement of economic
sustainability and creative endeavors. Motivating people in the west
to “be the change” they want to see in the world.

What does empowerment look like?

Empowerment means to give someone the authority or power to do
something. Empowerment means to enable someone to do something.
Empowerment means to make someone stronger and more confident,
especially in controlling their life and claiming their rights.
Empowerment means emancipating, unshackling, freeing, and liberating.

Empowerment is real; it is giving people authority and power through
meaningful activities that have a defined impact on their lives.
Empowerment has measureable outcomes that are beneficial to the both
the parties giving and receiving the power because a balanced
relationship is a healthy relationship.

Empowerment is lasting change. It is both self-sufficiency and
interdependence. Empowerment is Africans who can live and thrive
without Western charities and aid. It is acknowledging that socially
responsible capitalism requires that Africans will own successful,
respectful businesses and that those businesses can control methods of
production and have access to international markets without Western
middlemen.

Empowerment acknowledges that both Africans and Westerners can help
each other in meaningful, lasting ways. Empowerment begins from truth.
The truth about what each party knows and possesses. It starts from an
understanding of each other and the mutual creation of a place where
individuals can bring their strengths and weaknesses, their hopes and
fears to a place of fairness and honesty.