Name: Poverty Warriors!
Uploaded: 2020-11-02T19:45:38.000Z
Duration: 5 min 40 s
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Hey, imagine if I give you a million dollars right now, all of a sudden, you'll find it much easier to start a business to start a new life and to get an education.

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But what if, instead of a million, I gave you $0 to start with all of a sudden, everything else is much harder.

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And that's the case with a lot of people in the world right now who are born with $0 or with very few.

Resource is the following video took 1000 days to make, and it's about the humans who beat all the odds and change their life around.

I hope you're ready for this trip around the world in the country off Myanmar E.

11 year old girl who lives in poverty high 11 years to support her family, she became a tour guide and learned four languages on her own just to communicate with tourists.

Now she is the sole breadwinner for her entire family, and she is only 11 in the slums off South Africa I saw pull on the side of the street with no money or support system but I saw him building an actual robot from the trash around him to show that he is capable.

This robot now helps him poll, get money from passing tourists and send him to university on the other side of the world.

In China, I saw who live as a simple old farmer.

But Woo spent years learning how to build incredibly sophisticated robot without even using the Internet.

This'll Farmer has become China's iron man and is now a lecturer at a local university.

He went from farmer to professor in the United States.

I saw Isaiah, who grew up poor in Compton, Los Angeles.

But thanks to scholarships and his hard work, Isaiah, I got a pilot's degree to become the world's youngest African American to fly around the United States at the age of 16 on, I'm straight out of content.

Now He's set to fly around the world and make money from being a pilot.

This'll isn't just people who are rising against the odds.

It's also entire communities in the state.

Off Hawaii, 200 homeless people who lived on the streets got together to start their own town.

They built an incredible community with rules Way have strict rules here and zero tolerance policies.

60% of them found jobs, and now they're looking to build their own town with real houses.

Now she's the governor off this community.

Yeah, And in the state off India Dharavi Mumbai, one of the largest slums in the world, is full of poor people but is not empty off.

Entrepreneurs everywhere you see on the ground, people are working hard artists, designers.

Sculptures have created an informal economy that generates $1 billion every year from Islam.

A little above stories are so inspiring, and they remind me of the words off a wise man who once said, Now is no time to think off what you do not have.

Think off what you can do with what there is.

That video you just saw I made using this camera and this microphone.

But for the first time ever, I'm ditching my camera and I'm picking up my podcasting equipment because yes, I'm starting a podcast.

And if you liked that video, I think you're gonna love the podcast because I just wanted to make a podcast about things that I would listen to about topics that I want to listen to, for example.

So that's the beautiful relationship, I think just to establish this right we were this was never meant to happen.

For you to come to my village was a big, big deal.

Okay, Fellow non Arabs and Jews that are listening for a Arab to invite a Jew to an Arab village period is weird.

And then to do it during Ramadan is weird.

And then another layer dude on the Internet that I've never met before.

Stocks is 100% honest and raw and deep and, by the way, is 100% free.

So keep your money and give me your ears.

Because if you like this video, I think you're gonna love this podcast.