Awakening Curiosity towards Resilient Communities

For the last 7 years, I have worked and researched within the world of philanthropy . I have developed great proposals, basked in the warmth of real social impact , and counted good money.  It’s been fulfilling work, both intellectually and morally.  In these years, I developed a  conviction that our world operates in an imbalance as I learnt the intricacies of wealth and generosity. As I advanced my studies, I figured that this inequality was not inevitable, as  wealth redistribution is possible! Hence , a simple way to tilt this imbalance, I once thought, would be to encourage giving as a sort of  moral correction to an unequal system. But, in a deeper reflection of analyzing financing around social causes, I find it imperative to interrogate dynamics around the 'generous' . By skewed definition, these are a handful of individuals who hoard unimaginable wealth, then “ give back ” through foundations that often bear their names. Why are they bent on...

When I first started exploring the concepts surrounding unbanked people and their challenges, I realized that most countries' governments may not be able to fully tackle the existing inequality. With a background in Social Policy, I continue to grapple with the sometimes-contradictory role of social policies as a force for progressively transforming inequalities while still reproducing the very inequalities through a complex interplay of intersecting factors. Previously, I explored the possibility of blockchain technology to solve some of the institutional barriers to financing development . Despite the technological milestones, it continues to be an uphill task to integrate hard-to-fathom, breakthrough technologies such as digital currencies into mainstream economic systems. Later in a 17,500-word thesis, I contended with the hope presented by the private sector through localized individual philanthropy, borrowing from a history of the currency of generosity with philosophies li...