Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders

Reversing Poverty By Giving People Work - From the ETL Archive

11.26.2019 - By Stanford eCornerPlay

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Look back to one of our favorite talks from the ETL archives. Entrepreneur Leila Janah describes how her social enterprise Samasource allows people in Africa and elsewhere to lift themselves out of poverty through dignified, fair-wage digital work like photo tagging for companies in Silicon Valley. She celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit in those who survive on next to nothing and explains how giving work is more effective than charity.

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