Jacqueline Novogratz on an escape from poverty

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www.ted.com Jacqueline Novogratz tells a moving story of on an encounter in a Nairobi slum with Jane, a former prostitute. whose dreams of escaping poverty, of becoming a doctor and of getting married were fulfilled in an unexpected way.
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@TrueHealthSolutions 15 лет назад

Inspiring. May those of us who started with more in life do as much as this young woman did with so little. Got to love the human spirit.

@olgamashtaler6705 3 года назад

I am struck by Jane's character. She was not broken by circumstances. Whatever it sounds, everything is done everything is for the better.

@user-ls2gf3pb2j 3 года назад

Helping people in this way is a very good idea. Thank you, Jami Bora. Unfortunately, our world does not want to unite to help people from poor countries, because governments do not want to negotiate with each other on these topics.

@trakkaton 15 лет назад

Learn to read. Learn to debate. End of discussion.

@holdenmkrotch 15 лет назад

I love this. It's people like Jacqueline Novogratz that help all of us to gain insight into controversial subjects like poverty. Money isn't the main or the only answer to these complex issues; Education, through talks like these for example, is worth more than any charitable donation, or the price of a plane ticket as another commenter said. Only education and sharing these kinds of human experiences can breed the compassion and activism needed to change the world. Thanks!

@samala51 11 лет назад

Unfortunately not everyone's story ends like that.

@impaingod 15 лет назад

We have so much... We live better than most kings did 500 years ago. I can just go to my kitchen and turn on the tap to get clean water. I can turn on the heat, take a shower, there is food in my fridge! I am truly blessed! When you buy a chocolate bar think about how may people you are employing. The store clerk who sold it to you, the store owner, the company who made it, the farmer who grew the coco beans...you "employ" hundreds of people everyday. We are kings!

@RantKid 15 лет назад

thank ya! Yeah it is important for people to stay optimistic in order for new ideas and innovation to come about. I am by no means bragging because I'm not by any means "rich" but without being optimistic by looking for a needy target market, my business would never have been possible if I was pessimistic and thought "economy bad = i can never start a business or make anything new"

@GetMeThere1 15 лет назад

Putting aside the expected platitudes we had shoved down our throats at the end.... This talk reminds me of a truth exposed by psychological research: the one (probably ONLY) true "poverty" is the feeling that you are utterly powerless to change your conditions (and that reality applies to current economic conditions as well). The "micro loan" programs in these places have provided a HUGE incentive for people to feel they have some control and potential for change.

@AGPEcko 15 лет назад

Jane is awesome, she's got ambition, and that's more than I can say for the rest of them stuck in that god forsaken slum. She's got a goal, and she did something about it instead of sitting idle and waiting for relief.

@anooshanoor233 22 дня назад

"Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary" WOW

@ancestralblue 15 лет назад

Never heard of that ehhh? When you give away with generosity it triggers a flow of Universal energy that brings gifts of abundance. Next time a homeless person comes to you on the street and asks for money, give him what you have in your pocket. And do it from your heart. You're giving him more than just money. Watch what happens next.

@koyot_inozemez 3 года назад

1: no matter: 3:14 2. 3:25 turned into 3. 3:26 milestones 4. does business 4:02 5. before you knew it 4:03

@RantKid 15 лет назад

having said that, once the economy is up on it's feet, these services will remain in tact - new and old - and people will be much better off than we were in the 1990s

@ArgoSG 15 лет назад

Really simple solution. Fewer super-absurdly-rich people mean vastly fewer utterly impoverished people.

@beebobox 15 лет назад

it's some utopian ideal that if you give something, you get it back in other forms, the basic idea is good, i.e. be generous but it's a blind faith for generosity so it fails to deliver, the reason people like it is because of the good feeling you get by giving someone who needs/wants something of yours and you're ok with parting with said item/currency. it's a badly thought out but in essence a good idea, that in the end fails to deliver what is promised.

@trakkaton 15 лет назад

Let me explain it to you one more time: It is irrelevant how many times you help someone on a chair during musical chairs. The relevance that you perceive is caused by your perception omitting the person who doesn't have a seat anymore. When on the other hand you provide SYSTEMIC change that means that you enlarge the numbers of chairs. Not the quantity of systemic change is relevant here, but the quality (i.e. being systemic at all). You seem to mix up quantity and quality.

@trakkaton 15 лет назад

Quality vs. quantity is just a description of what takes place if you interfere with the musical chairs, and it's not my personal view or a clarification but simple MATH. If you give a part of a regionally limited supply of something to someone (quantitative) without changing the supraregional supply, you - as I said before - take the good/ opportunity away from someone else without noticing it. It's masturbation, not "helping people".

@trakkaton 15 лет назад

"It's not leading a horse to water, it is musical chairs." See, normal people ask if they don't understand something instead of producing ignorant statements about a topic they don't understand. If you don't know the popular game musical chairs nor its widespread use to explain economics it would have been your turn. It's not a metaphor, it's rather a parabel and can even be taken literally: There are a limited number of goods/ opportunities in a region due to supraregional distribution.

@RantKid 15 лет назад

of course good economy provides new opportunities, but only limited because businesses in a good state of mind don't want change. this economy forces change at a much higher rate, however: There are more services than retail business today, from Netflix to groceries. this allows people to get the same amount of materials at a more affordable rate...and new business today need to cope.

@PVAriel 14 лет назад

Jacque, You revealed a secret thru your speech, this is not a phenomenon in Africa instead this situation can be seen in several parts of countries like India, Pak, Bangladesh and even in some other so called developed countries. Jacque, i have noticed some unpleasant comments here why can't you delete such dirty comments. Good Going. Keep us inform. P V Ariel, Secunderabad, India

@gearsofwarfanatic 15 лет назад

I say that hope is 50% of the battle, logic is 40%, and the human will is the other 10% of it.

@TheJackygomez 10 лет назад

What's the organization that helped Jane?

@marcusporciuscatotheyounge5795 10 лет назад

It is called Capitalism

@Antreus 15 лет назад

They have so many children because of the social dynamics of the country they live in. Parents have more children based on a few things I will list: Men being more valuable to a family than a woman. They have more children so they will be taken care of in their old age. However, it can trap countries because less resources are allocated to the developement of each individual person. Another reason is that healthcare the infant mortality rate is a great deal higher.

@ShakespeareAvenue 15 лет назад

Is this really TED or FOX News? It's amazing this woman was given a passport and TED gave her a microphone! Ideas worth shredding!

@beebobox 15 лет назад

because the promise of the idea is we all should give more of ourselves to others because it's a good thing, and it makes the world a better place. from a capitalistic point of view the idea is sound, but the idea would never align itself with something as superficial as capitalism would it. the idea promises a loftier notion if "good", when in essence it's all about getting more then you give. advances are made because of greed, and that's a good thing, without it we'd be living in caves still

@TheDebrajm 12 лет назад

please her book 'The Blue Sweater'. dot go by a compressed video grab. She really offers a third way. the world needs to listent o that possibility.

@leylacorrea1784 2 года назад

What happened to Jane´s husband? What is Jane´s job now? How did Jane scape from poverty?

@tariik9789 4 дня назад

jajajajajajajaa

@RantKid 15 лет назад

if it wasn't for the bad economy, my businesses would not be so successful. I'm starting a local restaurant site for reviews to help business, and a private care program to help parents of special needs children to not pay out the ass for care. both of these help stimulate the economy by creating jobs and cheap, realiable services. thanks economic downfall! she was right in saying that poor economy = lots of opportunity for new businesses & services

@ancestralblue 15 лет назад

The gift is in the "giveaway." Therein is the gift of Universal Abundance.

@flyhead2 15 лет назад

Strange how people that think highly of themselves (wonderful people) are so easily swayed to make disdainful comments of those of less than wonderful character (everybody else). Sleep well on the cushion of yourself.

@kalaway 15 лет назад

Sounds like a great "hand up not hand out" enterprise. My best wishes that it succeeds..

@Fiorellla 3 года назад

How did Jane scape from poverty?

@Blue-sf7xo 10 месяцев назад

Viendo esto para lengua inglesa en la unc aaa

@tiabolinha2429 3 года назад

Não entendi bulhufas!

@grraadd 15 лет назад

6:59..............

@petexii 15 лет назад

Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

@trakkaton 15 лет назад

What a bunch of BS. It isn't hope, it is deception. It's not leading a horse to water, it is musical chairs. Only systemic changes are sustainable. You can justify any BS with exceptions. Learn some logic, reading, thinking.

@minhanhnguyen2386 2 года назад

Bravo!

@TurboGC8 15 лет назад

then you need to study metaphysics

@eatinpsilocybin 14 лет назад

i know this isn't on subject: but this lady has a slammin' body!

@flyhead2 15 лет назад

Strong and positive or gullible and misinformed? If you think that Obama has the right answers then you are asking all the wrong questions.

@elspoko 15 лет назад

Is it just me, or does this chick have a really nice body? Just saying. I know she's trying to fight poverty and all but O JAM.

@trakkaton 15 лет назад

This presentation is very, very misleading. Poverty, slavery, oppression has very deep, systemic causes. This is just talking about exeptions to blur the sight that would grasp reality. It is musical chairs. It is a mockery.