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at a recent luncheon at the downtown first american bank women from as far away as papa new guinea and kenya eight with women from tennessee they met to talk to face debates about how to learn to solve problems in their communities with little or no money or government support the thirty five women are routinely met at the nineteen ninety five the united nations conference on women in beijing they decided to continue the kind of dialogue that began their meeting twenty year michelle fled works with a group that hosted the international exchange this year and for the international women who come to me and they would grab you could hear why the crimes they are involved in community economic development around the grassroots level there are committed to working with local women and children low income energy and then to improve their lives both economically and auto socially tennessee women's welcome the internationals into their homes they

say the close quarters led them to tangible results may name is sharon van from kenya it comes from us amy i read in your way out what tag these various castes it levy man tradition of house of traditional us a house is a house made of tweets i was going to get that they at the waltz ends a roof is made of cow down mixed its soil weeks is a three hour not the permanent solution because when it rains the houses leak because they become sunday and their eeg you ship houses with small windows is actually stealing is and how says tombs and according to use their culture calls for the mother and children to sleep in one room and the father and another when the girls grew up and to them that means being ten years old they have to move out because

they can't be in the same house as their fathers as it is now they must do to move in with their grandmothers or get married these children sometimes can go home so we keep them and treated them with finances so well i'd try to talk to their people into it we found some new shows share is working with women in her community and building helped design that incorporate a private room for the girl's she's also working on stemming the girls to school rather than sending them into marriages with goldman you might think she came to the united states searching for answers in this case she's teaching rural women from tennessee how her community solve the housing problem what the women are being back in the village is that it's that dread fundraising they collect money every month or every week and then the latest one person then that that person wants to them i needed more force sometimes and lincecum be an episode so the collapse trying to ease the group because we have no fuss cto axis in egypt with the violence women like diane silly

but lawrenceburg say hearing that kind of solidarity has helped her realize she can make a greater impact in her talent it's been among the most amazing thing to have them in my home in my hometown when that dissuade i have learned that when you did you don't have resources our then you communicate much of this work is kind of invisible as people who are piecing together life and really hard places and without much resource and without much connection to the political process is sometimes that in communities are how it is that we can give visibility help people understand the learning process and the wise the women same visibility is key to gain enough power to get things done to lead this group in lawrenceburg raised enough finds to buy women shelter several years ago she shares how she did that with theresa from papa new guinea although teresa less than a modern city she calls her village her home were the main language spoken is not to a weapon a big jesus amy i can find

all of the first radio is the freedom of the shia i am reed remains in the remote villages to mitigate the ones in their remote villages the hatchet that the remains face in the city so that that shouldn't be a woman running away from the remote villages do come through this city food really for the city light to reset is planning on bringing the group at the luncheon to her country so in hopes of gaining recognition for the grassroots work people are doing for national public radio i'm adrian are you