The Power of Grassroots Leaders

Effective Solutions to End Extreme Poverty can be Found among the Unsung Grassroots Leaders in the world's poorest countries.

Over the last 50 years, countries around the world have tried to reduce the number of people living in extreme poverty. Collaborative efforts of nations have also tried to resolve the associated problems, including the lack of access to basic survival tools, education, health and the degradation of the natural environment.

These attempts have had very little success and we still have close to one billion people living in extreme poverty. …

… At Sawa Global, we have taken a new approach to give recognition and connect these "voiceless" leaders to a global audience and provide a more effective way to solve extreme poverty. We built local capacity on new media tools in the world's poorest countries by training local amateur and professional videographers. These videographers not only find the local grassroots heroes but also work with them to document their success stories on short videos and showcase these on our website portal.

From there, we connect the heroes to our global network of strategic partners that can help grow and replicate their project on a local and global level.

In just a few months, we have trained and recruited close to 300 videographers in 57 countries, received hundred of ideas on local grassroots leaders and approved a group of Sawa Heroes that changed the lives of over 10,000 people by giving them access to income and education, recovered hundreds of former child soldiers and protected 10,000 hectares of tropical forests. …