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The Blue Sweater is the motivating story of a woman who left a career in international bank to invest her life on a quest to comprehend global poverty and discover powerful new ways of tackling it. Everything started back home in Virginia, with the blue sweater, a surprise that quickly became her prized possession - until the day she outgrew it and provided it away to Goodwill. Eleven years later in Africa, she discovered a young youngster wearing that very sweater, with her name still on the tag inside. That this sweater experienced made its trek completely to Rwanda was adequate evidence, she thought, of how exactly we are all connected, how our actions - and inaction - touch people every day across the globe, people we might never know or meet. From her first stumbling efforts as a young idealist venturing forth in Africa to the creation of the trailblazing corporation she works today, Novogratz explains to gripping experiences with unforgettable characters - women dancing in a Nairobi slum, unwed mothers starting a bakery, courageous survivors of the Rwandan genocide, business owners building services for the indegent against impossible chances. She shows, in ways both amusing and heartbreaking, how traditional charity often fails, but how a new form of philanthropic trading called "patient capital" can help to make people self-sufficient and can transform millions of lives. More than just an autobiography or a how-to guide to addressing poverty, The Blue Sweater is a call to action that challenges us to offer dignity to the indegent and to rethink our engagement with the planet.
