Sustainable Impact: How Women Are Key to Ending Poverty

Sustainable Impact: How Women Are Key to Ending Poverty
ISBN-10
154374088X
ISBN-13
9781543740882
Category
Social Science
Pages
186
Language
English
Published
2017-05-05
Publisher
Partridge Publishing Singapore
Author
Laina Greene

Description

The world has changed rapidly over the past decades. These changes havemade eradicating global poverty more challenging than ever.In a comprehensive guidebook,Laina Raveendran Greene, Audrey Tan and Lizzy Hawkinsthreepassionate female social entrepreneursshare their thoughtsonthefeminisation of poverty where women end upasvictimsand show that when enabled, womencan take on the powerful role of changeagents. They challenge us tomove beyond the unconscious bias of seeing women as capable of receiving only microfinanceloansto viewingwomenascapable of receiving larger funding,and presentdatathatshowswomen are good investments. The authors lead us on a journey of hope where they encourage us to solve problems empathetically; embrace grassroots human-centric solutions; initiatesystemicchange; support a world of purpose-driven businesses, and help build a newparadigmof capitalism where people and purpose are more important than a sole focus on profit.Incorporated in the bookis a careful examination of the old models of charity and donations juxtaposed against the promise that purpose-driven social enterprises hold in eradicating poverty. Sustainable Impact: How Women Are Key to Ending Povertyoffers eye-opening insight and practical advicethatseeks tomotivate everyone to help make a better world and do our part to eliminate global poverty.

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