Harnessing talent, releasing potential

Judi Wakhungu stated that"...the poor are actually a source of opportunity because they are often willing to work much harder than the rich, are more adaptable, physically often stronger, more resilient and often more industrious and innovative in the face of challenges. What they do lack is access to credit, technology and markets. They are the creative underclass waiting to burst out. Poor people too have talent and intelligence, and it is African society's responsibility to discover talents and develop them...We need to redesign products for poor countries around their needs. The poor need technologies to tap their unrecognised talents and convert their arid land to food-producing, the trash to art, and their voluminous labour to capital..."