New approach to solving poverty
A big mistake that governments often make is failing to tap into the skills, talents and abilities that lie just below the surface of people's needs.
They don't involve 'patients in the cure'.
How do we help people out of poverty, and prevent poverty happening in the first place?
Isn't there something in the idea of turning governments into engines for spreading out fortune, and reducing inequality, so that we reach every part of society?
There's a lot of work to be done in the UK, where millions of us live in poverty after housing costs are accounted for.
Our priority is to get the movers and shakers such as the Mays, Khans, Sturgeons and Joneses to realise that only a bottom-up, people-powered revolution in government delivery will help us solve poverty.
There will always be people who need a hand up. But seeing them as problems, and ignoring their solutions, is a mistake that we cannot make.
Chief Executive Officer at The Brisben Center: A path from homelessness to home
7 年The resolution I think you are describing is Asset Based Community Development. Follow Cormac Russell
HHPA, (Homeless Health PEER Advocate). at Groundswell, (inclusive solutions to homelessness).
7 年"...big heart, Mr Bird, as it is needed to relay the adequate communication to the respected individual/groups and let them know that they're in fact in worlds that are like a wheel inside a wheel...spinning around the revolutions, that spin back the dimensions, that they evaluate incorrectly because they do not 'get wid da' times', be it operative, to result on the econometrics' needed to rectify the problems of homelessness and all the impoverish devalues that it entails. Soldier on sir, it's not a little issue, it's a big issue. Blxs."
Project Manager and serial social entrepreneur, innovating with technology & local communities
7 年Definitely. Everyone has something important & useful they can give.
Technical Capability Lead | Office of the Chief Engineer | UK Space Agency ??
7 年The cure lies in the hands of those deemed 'in need'. We must offer opportunities, in a compassionate way in order for individuals/families & communities to fulfill their individual and collective potential.