Jacqueline Novogratz on an escape from poverty
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http://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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where t... Read more
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- -: Jacqueline Novogratz on an escape from poverty
March 24, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks...
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- -: Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums
June 23, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education -- and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this informal, disruptive new kind of school, he says, is what all schoo...
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- -: The Myth of the City in Global Slums
November 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/10/25/Cities_as_Solutions People originally moved to cities "to live longer, to live healthier," explains Carolyn Stephens, professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. But the result, she says, is often a risk trade-off between putting ...
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- -: Dr. Jill Biden Slideshow in Kibera, Kenya
June 8, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Dr. Jill Biden toured the Kibera area of Nairobi, Kenya, one of the largest slums in the world with just about 1.5 million people living in an area of about 2 square miles. Hear the Second Lady narrate photos from her visit. June 8, 2010.
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Charles Leadbeater: Education Innovation in the Slums
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Charles Leadbeater talks about how education should present itself as practical in the slum areas to attract the poor to study.
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