Critical Thinkers 3rd Round Table

The Question of Women Poverty:

How to eradicate poverty in non-
schooled women?
December 11th 2010
Introduction
Net Impact Saudi Arabia

Critical Thinkers Round Table Process

Third Round-table Case: Poverty in Non Schooled Women

Group 1 Results

Group 2 Results

Way Forward
Attendees
References
Introduction

What is Net Impact Saudi Arabia ‫?تأثـــير‬

Net Impact Saudi Arabia (NISA) – ‫ تأثـــير‬is a nonprofit network of

professionals based in Saudi Arabia, founded in 2009.

The mission of the chapter in Saudi is to leverage the talents of our

network of professionals to positively impact Saudi Arabia

What is Net Impact

Net Impact is an international nonprofit organization with a mission to

inspire, educate, and equip individuals to use the power of business to
create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world.

Size: The international nonprofit has a network of over 200 chapters and
15,000 members of new generation leaders in more than 40 international
cities and more than 120 leading MBA programs around the world.
Critical Thinkers Roundtable

The Critical Thinkers Round Table is a meeting of bright minds to network

with other high potential young professionals from a diverse set of
academic disciplines (engineering, business, design, technology, and
more). The Round Table is part of Net Impact's goal to connect ambitious
problem solvers with one another and use their skills into solving the social
and environmental problems of their community.

Structure of the event

1.     Open conversation  get connected, chat, and sneak in if your late! (10-
20 min)
2.     Introductions  of appetizer proportions (15 min)
3.     Power Brainstorm Sessions where small groups come up to solutions
to challenging problems in (30 min).
4.     Solution Sharing and Comparing where the attendees of the Round
Table deliberate on the proposed solutions (15 min).
5.     Free Networking and conclude
Third Round-table Case:

A Solution for Maryam’s Shy Hand!

“I wouldn’t do this if I could make a decent living some other way,”

said  Maryam, An uneducated mother of three children in her thirties,
who begs for money from time to time on the steps to a supermarket.

Come up with business ideas that makes use of a skill that Maryam
and shy women can learn and provide her the decent living she needs
for herself and children.

Turn Maryam’s shy hand into a giving hand ! 

Group 1 Results : Catch a Fish Foundation

(4) Follow up to
(5) Graduation +
ensure
Get next
sustaininable
candidate
success

Needs for
Esteem

Needs of Love, Affection and

Belongingness

Safety Needs (1) Assess

(3) Link with
Candidates Skill
Basic Business
and Need
Basic Needs (Physiological Needs)

(2) Provide the

Necessary
Training and
Need
 1. Asses Candidate Needs and Skills:
Find needy families and assess their skills, abilities, and interests.
Pay for their basic needs to satisfy lower-levels of Maslow's
hierarchy. Sign a binding contract that the payment of the needs will
be done not as a lump sum but rather on installment basis as needed
as long the candidate continues with the program.

Candidate Skills Assessment (Sample):

Here the applicant skill get assessed into what the applicant already
know and what the applicant can be taught in the process

Can Do Could Do (with training)

Cooking Simple Machine Work
Ironing Typing
Babysitting Teaching basic skills
Inquiry Make Up

2. Train and educate:

based on the assessment results, the candidate get the necessary training
to develop him for the skills required for her new venture.

3. Find jobs and/or coach for entrepreneurial success.

The candidate either gets connected to recruiters or trained to launch her
own skill based mini business.

4. Reach sustainable success.

Follow up on the candidate success in her new job/venture.

5. Graduation - have candidates coach new entrants and sponsor

according to their ability to.
After looking after the graduate success, as part of her graduation she is
asked to bring forward another candidate to go through all five steps of the
program.
Group 2 : A Multi-strategy approach

Create a multi-strategy approach where the targeted demographic

would be able to slot in at ease and contribute back to the society as
quickly as possible. We do this by:

+ Training the subjects in hand crafts, and other skills that require
little capital but can be used to generate products/services.

+Giving them the Opportunity to showcase that talent/skill/business

and that could be by:

- Increased Exposure:
* Creating a directory of home businesses in each area; thus offering
them better exposure.

* Create a street market, where booths are rented by the hour.

- Encourage companies to use the products created by these
individuals as corporate gifts (the engraved bags, crested diaries
...etc) rather than having them spend that money on goods from
china.

+Work on branding low skill jobs to increase their social value, and
fight the perception that certain jobs are demeaning.
Attendees

Table 1:

Essa Al Haroun
Hattan Ismaeel
Majed Al Salamah
Abdulaziz Al Sulaim
Abdulaziz Ahmed

Table 2

Ahmed Bin-Shaflout
Loay Mashabe
Abdullah Al Rashid
Khalil Nammari

Leadership Team:

Khalil Nammari
Abdulaziz Al-Sulaim
Abdullah Al-Rashid
Abdulaziz Ahmed