• Poverty is the nonexistence of food, shelter,

money and clothing that occurs when people

cannot satisfy their basic needs.

• Poverty can be understood simply as a lack of

money, or more broadly in terms of barriers

to everyday life

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Polak was born in the Czech Republic and raised in Canada.

At twelve year old he learn that he could make five cents a

quart picking strawberries, this inspired him and his friends

entrepreneurial spirit. Together they started a strawberry farm

that earn them seven hundred dollars for two summers’ work.

Before establishing IDE, Paul practiced psychiatry for 23 years

in Colorado.

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• Has worked with thousands of farmers in countries around the world—including; Bangladesh, India, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

• This moved 17 million people out of poverty.

• IDE has ended poverty for 19 million of the world’s poorest people by making radically affordable irrigation technology available to farmers.

• He aims to create a design revolution by enlisting the

best designers in the world.

• To develop products and ideas that will benefit the

90% of the people on earth who are poor.

• In order to help them earn their way out of poverty.

• He wants to build local restaurants for people in

poverty

• He wants to use low cost oil expellers to produce a

locally branded form of canola oil for local health food

store.

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Polak

• http://www.paulpolak.com/html/paul.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Polak

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