Jacqueline Novogratz Charity Quotations

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

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

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...

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.