The news article “70M People are Counting on this Social Entrepreneur to Succeed” was found on Forbes. This article was written by Devin Thorpe and was published on February 22, 2019. Forbes is known to be a neutral but has a slightly skewing right leaning bias on the media bias chart.
This article discusses the details of what John Kluge, the founder and acting managing director for Refugee Investment Network or RIN is doing to help refugees not have to pay for their travel loans. this company has aligned themselves with other brands and companies to help assist the refugees by “matchmaking” them with potential investors. This is beneficial since there are “70 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world.” That is a lot of people. people that are scraping to not be at the bottom. as Thorpe states it, these people are not living, they are surviving. which in my opinion, is not a way to live
A quote that stood out to me in the article was “Investing in opportunity for refugees domestically and around the world represents an opportunity for impact as well as for financial returns.” This stood out to me because it shows that even though Kluge is looking at this as a business transaction, he also sees it as an opportunity to help the refugees and assist them in process. this is not to say that they are having everything handed to them. many of the refugees have been displaced for many years and cannot live the way that they would like to.
Article Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/devinthorpe/2019/02/22/70m-people-are-counting-on-this-social-entrepreneur-to-succeed/?fbclid=IwAR3bZEaWshMp0tmLZL786-srsYeg0CLmBJdKTD5AwOICU5VO1HhllyAn3mk#5a3b6c7c61fa