Producer:
Mary Steele
Season
Season 08
Year:
2001
About this non-profit:

Trickle Up is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing poverty by providing the poorest of the poor with the opportunity to create their own businesses. Our Visionaries crew travels to the worst slums of Sub-Saharan Africa and India in order to document the work of Trickle Up. What we witness will astound you: hope growing quietly among the filth and desperation. The visionary who planted the seeds of this revolution is a senior citizen who began the battle against poverty with her beloved husband and continues it in his memory. Mildred and Glen Leet saw Trickle Down economics as a fallacy. In response, they created Trickle Up-an innovative answer to some of the world's most troubling questions.

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