4 steps for ending extreme poverty | Shameran Abed

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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At least 400 million people worldwide live in ultra-poverty: a state of severe financial and social vulnerability that robs many of hope and dignity. At BRAC, an international development organization focused on fighting poverty, Shameran Abed and his team have developed a sustainable, multi-faceted program that has already helped millions lift themselves out of poverty and create lives full of possibility. Learn more about their audacious plan to partner with governments to bring this life-changing program to an additional 21 million people in the next six years. (This ambitious plan is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

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0:00.0	Hi, it's TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. Working with people in the harshest forms of poverty
0:09.7	taught Shamran Abed and his family that it takes more than just financial support to lift people
0:14.8	out of deprivation. You also have to instill hope that they can transform their lives. In today's talk from TED 2020,
0:22.4	Shamron, who leads the nonprofit Brax's ultra-poor graduation initiative, sheds light on the practical
0:28.0	ways they help millions of people pull themselves out of extreme poverty and imagine a better
0:33.4	future. We are witness to monumental human progress.
0:40.3	Over the past few decades, the expansion of the global marketplace has lifted a third
0:45.1	of the world's population out of extreme poverty.
0:48.8	Yet we are also witnessed to an astounding failure.
0:52.4	Our efforts to lift people up have left behind those
0:55.3	in the harshest forms of poverty,
0:57.7	the ultra-poor.
0:59.1	What it means to be ultra-poor
1:00.8	goes beyond the monetary definition
1:02.8	that we're all familiar with,
1:05.1	living on less than $2 a day.
1:07.5	It goes even beyond
1:09.1	not having assets
1:10.6	like livestock or land. To be ultra-poor means to be
1:14.8	stripped of your dignity, purpose, and self-worth. It means living in isolation because you're a burden
1:22.0	to your own community. It means being unable to imagine a better future for yourself and your family.
1:29.3	By the end of 2019, about 400 million people were living in ultra-poverty worldwide.
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