Lesson Plans

In this chapter we are introduced to a class of students who have been given an educational opportunity to help raise them out of their extreme poverty status. The author outlines several themes and outcomes of education and begins to address some of the implications that education has had on the students and their families as the students choose not to go back to their family farms.

In this chapter shows the background of the country of Paraguay and how the country was handling poverty and economic growth. This chapter also gives the author’s history and the motivations for his current work.

In this chapter the author continues his story on how his foundation started and gained the funds necessary to make the loans they needed to get started.

In this chapter the student is introduced to different poverty metrics and how these have changed over time. To understand development, you need to understand poverty: what it really is, and different ways of thinking about how it manifests itself in the world. This includes absolute, relative and multidimensional poverty, as well as income inequality at home and abroad.

To understand development, you need to understand poverty: what it really is, and different ways of thinking about how it manifests itself in the world. This chapter outlines some of the poverty measurement tools that have been developed by governments and agencies.

In this chapter the student is introduced to Ken Wilber’s theory of society and how it relates to poverty. The student is shown how an integral approach to poverty was designed based on these foundational theories.

In this chapter the author talks about the different ways that poverty can be influenced and some of the motivations people have to make positive changes in their lives.

This chapter begins to combine all of the information presented so far about poverty and merge it into a unifying idea on how to identify poverty and get to the source of the issue. The Poverty Stoplight is introduced and it’s methodology is explained.

In this chapter the author discusses the implementation of the Poverty Stoplight program with the people in Paraguay. The chapter discusses the challenges that had to be overcome, changes in the process and technology and the outcome of the program.

In this chapter the author discusses the need to make the Poverty Stoplight part of the “credible poetry measurement methodologies” and how they began to prove it was reliable, valid, practical and powerful.

In this chapter the author details some of the resistance encountered by existing agencies when trying to get them to adopt the Poverty Stoplight program.

In this chapter the author details the roll-out plan for the Poverty Stoplight program and discusses some of the solutions posed by the team to help lift families out of poverty. This chapter also reviews the methods used to make the program financially viable and how members of their own team were able to benefit from the program.

In this chapter the author details the challenges of bringing the Poverty Stoplight program to other countries and how they trained the partners at other organizations who wanted to use the Poverty Stoplight with their own clients. The author also discusses the concept of bringing the Poverty Stoplight program to businesses and how they built a training model for private industry to use the system.

In this chapter the author discusses social sources of motivation when it comes to moving out of poverty and how the Poverty Stoplight can be used to help families articular their needs for goods and services. The author also discusses how the foundation moved forward with the goal of moving a whole community out of poverty within five years.