Awet Andemicael
Originally from Eritrea, Awet Andemicael is a recent graduate of Yale Divinity School in theology. She studied economics and music at Harvard University, and music at the University of California, Irvine. She writes primarily on Christian theology, religion and culture, forced migration, and interfaith issues, and is currently affiliated with the Elijah Interfaith Institute. She also volunteers with a local refugee resettlement organization, and works part-time as a professional musician.
About the project
Writers are asked to submit a first-person narrative describing enterprise solutions to poverty that are faith-based, faith-inspired, or interfaith efforts. Illustrations may come from any domain, including healthcare, education, consumer products, human rights, and others; examples must represent innovative private solutions to public problems.
Entrepreneurs create products, services and jobs. They expand economies, improve people's lives, provide employment (high and rising wages) and bring about competition. A competitive environment, in turn, gives rise to efficiency, meritocracy and further innovations and entrepreneurial drive.
The potent combination of entrepreneurship and technological innovation can forge an environment that is conducive to further enterprise, involving even government policy in supporting entrepreneurship and innovation.
