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Design for Poverty Winning Designs
A while ago, I featured the Design for Poverty contest. Well, after thousands of entries, the winners were finally selected via Yanko Design. Here are some of them…

GOLD - Rain Drops by Evan Gant (United States)
Ultimately the goal of this system is to create a means for people to be able to collect water, which is an essential resource for life. By helping them relieve the monetary burden in an essential area like access to clean water, people will have more economic flexibility to start address unmet needs in other areas. 

SILVER - Hidden City by Sara Melvinson (Sweden)
Hidden City is inspired by the cardboard signs we are so use to seeing. A homeless person would be given a small cardboard replica of a house that folds together. Postage is prepaid and can be dropped in the mailbox to whomever they wish to send it to. The receiver assembles the house and can go to the official website to reply to the letter. The website is also a portal to many other shares stories of how, why, and when. . . The portal is the starting point where people can feel akin to those less fortunate and find out how they can directly get involved at the local level.

BRONZE - Trash Sleeping Bag by Chris Nobles (United Kingdom) 
The bags are inexpensive to produce and distribute. They provide a basic necessity to both the homeless who often sleep in the cold and to local communities that spend millions a year trying to clean up street trash. Many of the foods are tossed out by grocers because they are no longer fit for sale but still plenty good for consumption. Instead of throwing away millions of dollars of food, we use it to uplift people out of poverty in the hopes they can help themselves.