Ted talk poverty: two videos

First video : http://www.ted.com/talks/jessica_jackley_poverty_money_and_love.html

             In Jessica jackley: poverty, money and love has an inspiring story about her own struggle dealing with the issue on poverty. It was when she was 6 years old when she first started to hear  stories about the poor from her Sunday school teacher and from god. she remember learning people who were poor need it something material : food, clothing and shelter that they didn't have. and it was her job to help them it was said that Jesus ask them. she was eager about helping but she soon learn that no matter what she would do she would fail. A phrase that she remembers from god  is " the poor will always be with us" and this confused,frustrated and overwhelmed her that it lead her to fear the poor and the negative emotions when she didn't know how to help and especially when the problem was never going away. she started to ignore them and blocking them off  because she didn't want to feel guilt for not being able to help them. Sadness, suffering and disease was the life of the poor.  Jessica Jackely heard a speech by Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus, an economist who had developed the idea of microcredit: micro lending; tinny loan that could help entrepreneurs start a business a new method to change the world. Jessica Jackely was deeply inspired " I was so completely blown away by the idea that I quit my job, dropped everything and moved to East Africa to help".   when I seen this video I was truly pull in into her inspiring story. what I learned is that there's a foundation called Kiva, an online community that helps individuals loan small amounts of money. This foundation gave me hope and happiness knowing that this program can change the world
and it takes all of us to change the world to destroy little by little the issue of poverty. I also learned that
this program helped a farmer in Cambodia, a pharmacist in Sierra Leone, or a shopkeeper in Mongolia 
and many more that change their life into a better standard of living in ways like being able to send their
children to school, buying mosquito nets or buying locks for their safety at home. there are able to afford things that
they couldn't buy. A quote from Jessica, that was very amazingly true "It was really humbling to see for the
first time, to really understand that even if I could have taken a magic wand and fixed everything, I
probably would have gotten a lot wrong. Because the best way for people to change their lives is for them
to have control and to do that in a way that they believe is best for them." we can help change their lives
but they are willing to change them in their own ways not ours. The program gives them an opportunity
to do their best and it helps them to continue their hard work and a better cycle of living. this program
also provides goals to make things better for all of us and helping solve the problem. I believe that this
program is a new method to change the world I want this program to get stronger by more supports for
us to fight poverty and break the cycle of poverty.


Second video: http://www.ted.com/talks/shukla_bose_teaching_one_child_at_a_time.html

 This video is about Educating the poor, says Shukla Bose. She tells the story of her
groundbreaking Parikrma Humanity Foundation, which brings hope to India's slums by looking past the
 daunting statistics and focusing on treating each child as an individual. The schools build an "end-to-end"
environment that supports learning -- offering lunch every day, health-care and family support. Beyond
 these schools, Parikrma has inaugurated several afterschool programs and has plans for setting up a
 central teacher-training hub. when I seen this video I was amazed how she truly is passionate about
education and was willing to teach a child at a time through school send to college and get prepared for
 better living . her passionate inspired me to learn more about her program that I would love to support
because students would learn to read and write and to not fear to fail and continue educating themselves.
this program would bring back learning and stop pushing students to fail if we can believe change is
possible. Every child in the world was the right to learn and we need to give that right to them 
without stealing that opportunity for them.