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Already this morning there were some allusions to the Africa that you hear about all the time: the Africa of HIV/AIDS, the Africa of malaria, the Africa of poverty, the Africa of conflict, and the Africa of disasters.
My concern is: Are we one-noting the genders in our narratives of poverty in developing communities?
In response to the desperate state of affairs, the drug use, the poverty, the violence, the soaring rates of HIV, Vancouver declared a public health emergency in 1997.
Virtually millions of people are caught up in a hopeless cycle of incarceration, violence and poverty that has been created by our drug laws and not the drugs themselves.
We have been led to believe that drug users are irresponsible people who just want to get high, and then through their own personal failings spiral down into a life of crime and poverty, losing their jobs, their families and, ultimately, their lives.
And after two months of living with them, of seeing the children and the way they work, I understood that the only thing that can change and that can break the poverty cycle is education.
In response, some people argue, but we need growth, we need it to solve poverty.
In fact, we redefine what poverty means.
Think of this, in America today, the majority of people under the poverty line still have electricity, water, toilets, refrigerators, television, mobile phones, air conditioning and cars.
Our system isn't just being shaped in these ways that seem to be distorting around race, they're also distorted by poverty.
There is no disconnect around technology and design that will allow us to be fully human until we pay attention to suffering, to poverty, to exclusion, to unfairness, to injustice.
I also believe that in many parts of this country, and certainly in many parts of this globe, that the opposite of poverty is not wealth.
I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.
And before I knew it, the courtroom was filled with people angry that we were talking about race, that we were talking about poverty, that we were talking about inequality.
How in Sandra's family, widespread hunger and poverty existed as recently as Sandra's parents' generation and therefore impacts Sandra today.
Or shifting the power in her classroom to her students by learning to listen to their experiences of racism and poverty.
We can get out of poverty.
When you're in poverty, everything is about survival.
And they are very, very eagerly interested to get advice, and that's to survive in poverty.
Getting out of poverty.
Technology will bring you out of poverty, but there's a need for a market to get away from poverty.
All these things are important for development, especially when you just get out of poverty and you should go towards welfare.
And that's energy poverty.
I work in Haiti, where about 80% of the population lives in energy poverty.
The only way they're going to lift themselves out of energy poverty is by adapting fuels that are more efficient, that are less expensive, that are better for human health, better for the environment and that are more productive.
The prescriptions to solve energy poverty seems pretty straightforward: you develop these technologies that have a great return on investment, and people should be snatching them up.
The first time I ever went down to Haiti was in August of 2008, sort of on a whim, and I was fielding surveys in the rural south of the country to assess the extent of energy poverty.
So I didn't make the sale, but I did learn a really important lesson, which is that technology, products, were not going to end energy poverty.
Specifically, there are two types of access that are going to end energy poverty: there's physical access, and there's financial access.
What we need for ending energy poverty are last-mile retailers that bring these clean energy products to the people.
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