Jacqueline Novogratz Poverty Quotations

Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity