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Highlighting Local Projects Series - Lifting up Cape Town

In 2016, Sam started a journey to discover what would happen if he applied his industry experience to help micro-entrepreneurs increase in knowledge, grow their revenue and ultimately pull themselves out of poverty. This experiment took place in South Africa, a country that has one of the widest gaps in wealth and race in the world. On one side of a street, you could find enormous mansions and golf courses and on the other, a family of 8 living in one single tin shack. Electric poles look like a spider web of wires directly hooking up to these shacks to provide some electricity. Most people cook in open fire stoves. Many of these shacks double as storefronts. Most roads are broken and all of them are covered in sand. People living in these townships survive on as little as $2.50 per day, while on the other side, people earn +20 times this amount. This was the most ideal place to learn some real world economics and test the theory: if you teach a man to fish, can he build a global industry? To find out the answer, come to the webinar.

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Details

Type of category: Meeting/Event Information

Date: November 9th, 2021

Hour: 12:00PM to 12:30PM

# of PDUs: 0

Pricing

PMI MemberStudents: $10.00

PMISWO ChapterMembers: $10.00

Non members and Guests: $10.00