Leila Janah Quotations

Every woman that dies or loses her baby on a threadbare cot in the heart of Uganda, while her sisters on the other side of the world enjoy first-class care, is a threat to our collective humanity.

At Samasource, a company I founded in 2008, we train people living in poverty from Kenya to California to develop and market 21st century digital skills to adapt to new economic realities.

We have people from places like Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit. Sama plays a huge role in why people leave lucrative careers to join a social enterprise.

Using the Internet to secure employment is as vital to a construction worker as it is to a software engineer.

Traditional charity is still fairly focused on how it makes donors feel as opposed to outcomes for people that need help.

The problem in a lot of low-income countries is that people take out loans to go and get degrees, which are then irrelevant in the job market.

The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries.

My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

It's really helpful to be physically engaged in something that's completely different from my day-to-day work.