Jill Versluys's Page

Forty-year old me, still not living in a tree.

Searching for yet another way to become free.



I am a very bad dreamer. I mostly just wait and see what happens. But I think think think that I might not do a lot in my time on earth if I keep acting and thinking that way. So, I have started to build up a little dream in my head. For now, it is even not worth calling it A Plan, but it already has some foundations. So I hope that 30year old future me will have the plan completely… Continue

In my work with Oxfam Solidarity I have discovered how both people in the developed world as in the developing countries respond better to opportunity driven solutions.

The first ones, the people I encountered on the streets (where I tried to convince them to become a supporting member of Oxfam), had more appreciation and respect when they were told how poor people responded to small economic projects. One story I'd like to tell was this one case where African farmers build an actual… Continue