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Doing good, a flip-side view: Fairoz Ahmad at TEDxKRP

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2012 · Education

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Ours is a generation striving to find a meaning and purpose greater than ourselves. In recent years, one of the ways we have channeled our intellectual and creative energies in the quest to do good is through social entrepreneurship. What deviant qualities do we need to get a social innovation program running in rural areas? What commonly frowned-upon characteristics are required to solve tough global problems? And why are these qualities needed? 

Fairoz Ahmad is a Director of Nusantara Development Initiatives (NDI), an organization he co-founded when he was a post-graduate student at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He believes that energy poverty can be solved by empowering women to overcome the problem of access to light sources.

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