Fighting Poverty with Economics

In this episode I talk with Alastair Wright, the Founder and Managing Director at the Genesus (sic) Foundation. He is an amazing young man, all of 24, who is doing world-changing work while managing all sorts of additional challenges himself and seeing the world. Give it a listen, you won’t be disappointed.

Show Notes:

1. (2:16) The Genesus Foundation, a business incubator that supports refugees in Istanbul
2. (6:18) Bullseye Magazine of Edinburgh University
3. (15:42) Small Projects Istanbul, an organization that helps people displaced by the Syrian conflict to access supplemental education to build sustainable futures
4. (15:50) Drop Earrings not Bombs, an income-generation and community-building project
5. (42:41) Endeavor, an organization that pioneers the concept of high-impact entrepreneurship in growth markets around the world.
6. (45:04) Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. 
7. (48:50) Elon Musk, a South African-born Canadian American business magnate, investor, engineer, and inventor.
8. (52:17) A Clean Start, a cleaning start up that employs refugees in regular work - created and supported by The Genesus Foundation.
9. (57:25) [email protected] contact information for Alastair Wright and/or The Genesus Foundation.

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