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‘I Earn a Profit. I Can Feed My Family’: How Microcredit Lending in Haiti Is Changing Women’s Lives - Ms. Magazine
  • In case someone doesn't already know about it, the charity "Give Directly" tries to find the world's poorest people and gives them lump sums of money. Not as a loan. They recognize how hard it can be for people in that level of poverty to pay back money, and it also eliminates a lot of the issues that material based charities can inadvertently cause on local economies!

    They're my number one favorite charity now, but I didn't know they existed till a few years ago so I'm trying to spread the word!

  • What bizarre misconceptions do people have about your field?
  • That's so sweet, I imagine she feels very supported by your words! It's for sure a full time job, but to me personally it doesn't feel like a job most of the time even though I'm super busy. I think it's the "find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life" thing?😊

  • What bizarre misconceptions do people have about your field?
  • People generally assume stay at home parents only choose that if their spouses make a lot of money, that they are bored or unsatisfied with their life, and that it's a job that is very hard and not much fun.

    Obviously I don't speak for SAHPs and maybe these things do apply to some, but my life is freakin awesome! We choose to live very simply and frugally on a single below average income and it is completely worth it every single day for us.

    I have so much control over my own schedule, I can't get enough of spending time with my kid and have so much fun with them, I have more time for my own interests, self care or friendships when my spouse can take over at times after work, we get fun family time all together almost every day because we don't have to spend all evening cooking and cleaning (plus our schedule is more flexible), and this is the only job where everything I do all day long directly benefits myself and my loved ones (beyond financial support).

    There is genuinely nothing in the world I would trade for this. But man do I get tired of the negative comments from nearly everyone who finds out what I do.

  • A Northern Pigmy Owl!

    He's probably been featured here at some point, but I saw this picture and can't get over the tiny little floofer!!

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