Enterprise and Poverty

PovertyCure - A Six-Part DVD Series [EXTENDED TRAILER]

This is a great video trailer from PovertyCure about poverty and enterprise. I really appreciated what Andreas Widmer says in it, "I'm frustrated with this idea that poverty means living on one or two dollars a day. That is a very bad way to state the problem." I appreciate it because I've asked myself many times recently, "Who are the poor?". It really can't just be reduced down to who makes a certain amount of money (defined by the U.S. dollar, of course). That would automaticaly exclude many of the poor in U.S. cities. And it would include some people who can provide for their families and live contently with what they have. It's just not that simple.

This video doesn't address that exact question, but it does talk a bit about how enterprise is so very different from aid when it comes to caring for the "poor", whoever exactly they may be, because it draws on the richness and creativity of the human spirit. And that is not determined by how much you have in your bank account.