Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes About Aids

Quotes about: Aids

• As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Trying, Twenties, World

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.4, HarperCollins Publishers

• Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Charity, Poverty

• I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Charity, Poverty, Facts

• There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Top Down, Government, Support

• Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed or traditional charity has failed.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Entrepreneur, Charity, Aids

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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