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  • What Do the Poor Need? Try Asking Them

    David L. Kirp

    August 08, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Neighborhood Centers, a Houston anti-poverty program has a simple philosophy: “The people are the asset, the source of potential solutions, not the problem.” The non-profit has scaled nationally, employing its bottom-up approach to disburse funds in poor communities.

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  • An antidote to IS recruitment of women

    The Christian Science Monitor Editorial Board

    May 19, 2015 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Morocco, Casablanca

    The Islamic State's recruitment of women draws big attention. But less noticed and more important are efforts in Islamic countries to raise the number of women in religious leadership, despite a long tradition against it, as a potential, effective antidote to the IS recruitment efforts – preventing young women (and men) from joining radical groups.

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  • MIT D-Lab promotes rural community innovations in Guatemala with Soluciones Comunitarias

    Nancy Adams

    October 10, 2014 |

    MIT News |

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    Response Location: Guatemala, Santa Maria Nebaj, El Quiché

    Using "Creative Capacity Building," MIT's D-Lab established in impoverished, rural areas in developing nations a method of empowering and supporting individuals in rural communities to invent low-cost technologies specifically geared to address the problems or needs of their locale. In 2009, the D-Lab paired with SolCom, a Guatemalan community organizing enterprise, and an international development fund to bring this model to the isolated, impoverished area of Nebaj, assisting locals in creating a Makerspace, or "integrated workshop, demonstration site, training center, and retail shop to complement the activities of microentrepreneurs." The collaboration has fostered an environment for sustainable, grass-roots change, in which the social and intellectual capital needed to create the needed innovations and inventions originate in the community itself.

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