18.2.10

The Blue Sweater

It is a typical idea of "social enterprise."
Many companies want to donate money for the poors, but the ways for them to use is not really appropriate.
I found it out in Taiwan as well.
The government or huge enterprises still think 'money' is the only way to solve problem.
Acturally the charties is a noun leaving in the last century, it is far difficult for philanthropic enterprise to survive for nowaday.

We can take a simple example here.
When you think you are a philanthropy, you will take yourself as a donator or a giver.
Those people who take your help will be the receiver.
It means you two are standing in an asymmetrics situation, frankly, you are higher than them.
It will generate another problem which is that they didn't take this favor by their free willing, and in another hand it is so hard for them to maintain those works you added at them or their society.
If you want to solve the 'clean water' problem, in the old thinking path, only when you have sufficient fund, and they can have clean water.
When the fund is gone, their life is going back the past.

How about we make a change, you will become a 'donator,' and those people who need help will be the 'enterprisers.'
You just give them a chance to change their lives, and they need to work hard maintaining this better life.
The best example of this is the 'Grameen Bank' of Muhammod Yunus, he loaned to the poors in Bangladesh.
He did it and helped millions of people in the one of the poorest country.
There are so many cases raised in the book, I really learned lots of things from that.
Although I felt ashame that I only know the smattering of those new ideas now, I still feel confident that I may get some new ideas to help those people I care.
Let's see~
Maybe WE can do something as well!

The idea of 'The blue Sweater' from Jacqueline Novogratz.
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