run poverty run
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• Poverty is the nonexistence of food, shelter,
money and clothing that occurs when people
cannot satisfy their basic needs.
• Poverty can be understood simply as a lack of
money, or more broadly in terms of barriers
to everyday life
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Polak was born in the Czech Republic and raised in Canada.
At twelve year old he learn that he could make five cents a
quart picking strawberries, this inspired him and his friends
entrepreneurial spirit. Together they started a strawberry farm
that earn them seven hundred dollars for two summers’ work.
Before establishing IDE, Paul practiced psychiatry for 23 years
in Colorado.
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• Has worked with thousands of farmers in countries around the world—including; Bangladesh, India, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
• This moved 17 million people out of poverty.
• IDE has ended poverty for 19 million of the world’s poorest people by making radically affordable irrigation technology available to farmers.
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• He aims to create a design revolution by enlisting the
best designers in the world.
• To develop products and ideas that will benefit the
90% of the people on earth who are poor.
• In order to help them earn their way out of poverty.
• He wants to build local restaurants for people in
poverty
• He wants to use low cost oil expellers to produce a
locally branded form of canola oil for local health food
store.
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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Polak
• http://www.paulpolak.com/html/paul.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Polak
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