“I received an unexpected refund check for $70 in the mail yesterday”, a team member shared. “Normally, I would have thought ‘Great! A nice dinner out’, or used it to buy something for myself. Now that I’ve signed on for the trip to Rwanda, and have been reading and learning more about the people we are going to meet, my first thought was ‘This would feed a family for a long time in Rwanda,’ and the money went into my trip fund.” . . . More
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A quote out of the book by Jacqueline Novogratz called the Blue Sweater: ” . . . I learned that microenterprise is an important part of the solution,but is not the only part. I also learned that traditional charity alone cannot solve the problems of poverty . . . big flows of aid can create as many incentives for corruption and mismanagement as for change. Markets alone won’t solve the problems of poverty. Low income people are invisible to most entrepreneurs . . . More |
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