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Thank you very much for your translation of this very unique processess that the smaller team who can create the new worlds where poor women can standing and sharing their powers whenever the opportunities are willing to offer.

My work in Vietnam, seems to be similarity with you, but different levels.

We starting from most difficult vulnerable women without reading and speaking, they only smilling. They always smilling and smilling to help them to over all the suffered that the socity, the family, the institutional behave imposed to them.

Their smilling is moving our hope from :

The first step:

A very group of women at 5 to 10 seating and gathering chicken eggs, all chicken egg will provide for 2 or 3 poorest women.

Learning together how to make chicken egg to be come a chicken, then from the chicken to be come chicken mother to bring another eggs and then helping each other to processing from egg to babychicken....

The second steps: women among, sharing the way how they develop from several egg become baby chicken, and how to promote from on baby chicken in to 20 - 25 baby chicken;

The third step: Women share the challenges that they deal with how to manage the original egg which was given by the groups

The fourth step: How to manage the risk during nurturing the baby chicken

The fiveth step: how to calculation the prices, inflation and management fees between egg and chicken for the whole processess

The sixth step: They start to connection among poorest women from different communities; they together to share how is the best coordination among themselves

The seven step: They together to voice their concerns for help and consulting them in order to footing further to pig, cow and bufferlows...

The eigh step: They want to make garden with manuals from pig, chicken, cow and bufferlow

They gardenging by their own experiences, knowledges in their geographical condition, then their garden become very nice,

The nine step: They asking for the Rights to Land and Forest, as they realized that, Land is their life and their future rights to nurture their culture, their livelihood, and their environment;

One day, the local government imposed the Sugarcan program in to their communities, the women do not like the surgarcan as they analysed that, the surgarcan is not fit with their natural and soil condition and such seasonality in their land, they together to fighting against the program.

Then 3 years later, all Surgarcan of the government is failured. Surgarcan factories could not running because surgarcan is not good enough. Farmer who were obey to follow surgarcan became very poor. The factories could not pay back money when they bough surgarcan from their farms.

The group of women become very uniques. Their image became very inspiring in the surrounding communities.

Some of the women became a leader in their communities, some of them became local parliamentarians, they still keep sharing and exchanging among at larger scales across communities, identities, geographical localities....

They voiced their concern in to local government, local tivi that they need to dialogue their ways of working together in order to share with all poorest women in different localities in Vietnam how important women at the same situation and the same suffered who seat together and shared from an chicken egg.

They develop amomong themselve saving trust to credit account to welcome any women who can access with very confident pround.

Many teacher at the local, citizen trust the group of women and they deposit money in to their trust.

One day, they discovered that, the plantation since 10 years ago from State Forest Enterprise in their land. These land used to belong to their ancestral. This plantation used to be rent women as the labors, now the time to harvest. They start to argue with the State Forest Enterprise about "fair behave in the benefit which the plant to sell to the buyer". The story starting from that point of view???!!!

The ending of the processes is:

The women start to analyse the historical context of the imposed plantation program to their ancestral land and after 10 years harvesting and benefit sharing in fair behave.

Story became very headache for many stakeholder included local authority, especially the story expanding to larger scale where many other women faced similarity situation.

The story is movingforwards in to conflict over the lands for livelihood security, for biodiversity... and so on...

The women asking to openning a forum for their dialogue. During forum, alots of situation hepenning, landless and the reason why landless, how ancestral land taken aways by who, why so... so on...

The women come up with impressive question to all different stakeholder who were involving in to the black game:

Why our children have to leave our community to looking for their surrvival?

Why our children becoming a social evil???

Why our land now belonging to anothers???

Why and how we lose our cultural practices???

Why beside or house, land belonging to people from the cities???

The whole above stories, telling you that, when the women have equal opportunity and rights, they can move the world from one to another in a vey wise and inspiring processes.

Many of them now become leadership in offcial at loca and they integrated the way to participate, facilitate in peace and real democracy.

That is our SPERI witness so far many years working with poorest women in isolation and not ownership so far.

Thanks and regards