Give Work: Reversing Poverty One Job at a Time

Charity is not the answer. Work is. Leila Janah, social entrepreneur and founder of
Samasource, is shaping the future of business: give work and access to income,
and empower the world's most destitute citizens with the resources to change their
lives forever.

When asked if they'd rather receive aid or work, the world's poorest people
choose work every time. According to Leila Janah, giving dignified, steady,
fair-wage work is the most effective way to eradicate poverty. Samasource, a
nonprofit she founded with the express purpose of outsourcing work from the
tech industry to the bottom billions, has provided over $10 million in direct
income to tens of thousands of people the world had written off, changing the
trajectory of their lives for the better. Janah and her team go into the world's
poorest communities--from the refugee camps of Kenya to rural Arkansas to the
blighted neighborhoods of California--and train people to do digital work from
companies like Google, Walmart, and Microsoft.

Picking up where Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid leaves off, Give Work debunks
traditional and cutting edge aid models and literature--and then, critically, offers
solutions. Based on Janah's firsthand experience, from a school for the blind in
Ghana to the World Bank, she has tested various Give Work business models in all
corners of the world, offering a blueprint to change it for good. A
Harvard-educated former management consultant, Janah shares her
entrepreneurial journey as well as the poignant stories of thousands who have
benefited from Samasource's work.

We can end extreme poverty. And in Give Work, Leila Janah shows readers that
the best way is to give people economic agency through work. Give work and you
give the poorest people on the planet a chance at happiness. Give work, and you
give people the freedom to choose how to develop their own communities. Give
work, and you create infinite possibilities.