This organization is really innovative. The problem with the way poverty has historically been addressed is that rather than acknowledging the social and economic factors that contribute to the issue, charities and NGOs have "come to save the day", with ineffective aid money. Dambisa Moyo writes about this problem in her book, Dead Aid.
Rather than empowering those in poverty to have a voice in their own development, aid money is pushed into corrupt government bureaucracies while those without food and water remain famished in the shadows. Ashoka seems to understand this power play, and provides funds that go directly to the social innovators that are native and local to where the problems exist.
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