Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.

When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.