Lewa,
What a powerful leadership story! Your poetic description of the potential to transform lives through transforming women’s lives provides a compelling picture of the ongoing need for authentic leadership in this world. You pose a powerful question that will continue to inspire me.
Thanks for sharing your story — and your life — in this course!
— Leadership Prof
Lewa, you are so inspiring to go above and beyond to help women and children where we can. Supporting just one woman, helps many. I support the organization Keva, to make micro-loans to support entrepreneurial women who don’t need a lot of money to start and grow their businesses. I can hear your burden for women and children, not just thinking about where you can help, but starting and running an organization. Fantastic. I will look up your foundation.
Thank you so much for sharing this fantastic story. I agree with the earlier comment: you are an inspiration. I admit that I am biased, because I share your passion. Though I am involved with a different foundation in different countries, our purpose and motivation appear to be very similar.
There is so much in your story that has caused me to stop and to ponder (I sincerely enjoyed that you used this word). Many of the decisions that I make with regards to my finances and my time are based on the question: “what can I give?”. Your comment that as a leader you are haunted by the need to mobilize others to “do what they can” (summarized by me) is powerful.
I also empathize with your comment: “As a leader I feel so helpless….” In the CBO/NGO that I am a Board member of we are always in situations where we know that the needs are great and we cannot meet all of them. Yet we know the power and the impact of helping one. So we equip and teach and empower one. And another. And another. And we lead those ones to equip and teach and empower one more. And we pray. And there is change.
I am still contemplating your comment: “I am first a person, a woman, before I am a leader.” I agree with this statement, though I question in my own life whether the lines are distinct, and if I have ever thought of them as distinct, one before the other.
Thank you so much for sharing, and thank you for the work you are doing.
(On a less intellectual note, you have a beautiful voice. And I really enjoyed hearing your passion as you told your story.)
July 6, 2018 at 8:41 pm
Lewa,
What a powerful leadership story! Your poetic description of the potential to transform lives through transforming women’s lives provides a compelling picture of the ongoing need for authentic leadership in this world. You pose a powerful question that will continue to inspire me.
Thanks for sharing your story — and your life — in this course!
— Leadership Prof
July 8, 2018 at 9:54 pm
Lewa, you are so inspiring to go above and beyond to help women and children where we can. Supporting just one woman, helps many. I support the organization Keva, to make micro-loans to support entrepreneurial women who don’t need a lot of money to start and grow their businesses. I can hear your burden for women and children, not just thinking about where you can help, but starting and running an organization. Fantastic. I will look up your foundation.
July 9, 2018 at 5:35 am
Thank you so much for sharing this fantastic story. I agree with the earlier comment: you are an inspiration. I admit that I am biased, because I share your passion. Though I am involved with a different foundation in different countries, our purpose and motivation appear to be very similar.
There is so much in your story that has caused me to stop and to ponder (I sincerely enjoyed that you used this word). Many of the decisions that I make with regards to my finances and my time are based on the question: “what can I give?”. Your comment that as a leader you are haunted by the need to mobilize others to “do what they can” (summarized by me) is powerful.
I also empathize with your comment: “As a leader I feel so helpless….” In the CBO/NGO that I am a Board member of we are always in situations where we know that the needs are great and we cannot meet all of them. Yet we know the power and the impact of helping one. So we equip and teach and empower one. And another. And another. And we lead those ones to equip and teach and empower one more. And we pray. And there is change.
I am still contemplating your comment: “I am first a person, a woman, before I am a leader.” I agree with this statement, though I question in my own life whether the lines are distinct, and if I have ever thought of them as distinct, one before the other.
Thank you so much for sharing, and thank you for the work you are doing.
(On a less intellectual note, you have a beautiful voice. And I really enjoyed hearing your passion as you told your story.)