And one might ask how those women perceived 'us' when told it was normal 
for the mothers to be _expected_ to leave their children.  And how 
abnormal it was for 'us' to consider it strange to not want to leave 
your children!  The classic pseudo-feminist trap - empower women by 
separating them from their children.

The forest of course, would have been highly dangerous for a single 
woman.  I can't imagine any aid package for women in the UK, requiring a 
woman to go off into a forest on her own, for several hours.  And that's 
in a culture with mobile phones and a huge police force.

I can just imagine the fuss if, as a teacher, I devised a lesson plan 
that required a single female to go into a forest on her own for a 
couple of days a week. 

Morgan Gallagher

Nikki Lee wrote:
> It might seem logical for women to go off into the forest for a few days
> from the outside "expert" point of view. Outside "experts"  forget or don't
> consider that mothers can't leave their children for so long, or don't know
> that in the local culture mothers would risk being seen as sex workers if
> they went off into the forest. 

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