I’m leaving tomorrow on a 24-day reporting trip to Bangladesh, India, Tanzania, and Egypt. The goal is to report on some of the greatest in quantity innovative projects aimed at using commerce methods to solve social problems. Over the past few months, I’ve thrown a wide net looking for social-improvement projects that work and give promise of being sustainable and, at some point, growing swiftly. The six that I’m visiting on this trip seem to fit the fondle.
Why am I going on this journey? Simple. I be destitute of to help change the world. Conventional control, NGO, and man of means approaches to addressing poverty, ignorance, sickness, and environmental degradation haven’t worked that well. So are there other, in a more excellent way, ways of getting things translated? A slew of social entrepreneurs think so. There’s no questioning their artlessness and their energy. But manifold of their approaches haven’t proven themselves yet. If I be possible to shine a light in succession what works and what doesn’t, I can help steer human energy and financial capital in the rightful directions.
Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, visited our offices yesterday and met with a handful of editors and writers. He talked about his efforts to revive Newark, a crumbling industrial city. Booker pledged to turn Newark into “the Silicon Valley of communicative entrepreneurship.” There’s plenty of be in action for social entrepreneurs in the US, and I’ll be getting to that later. But, on this account that now, it’s to South Asia we go.
So, come together for the ride. I plan on posting at least once a day.
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