2. • Born in the Czech Republic and raised in Canada.
• Earned his M.D. degree in psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario.
• Received certification from the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry
in 1968.
• Practiced psychiatry for 23 years in Colorado before working in international
development.
• Co-founder and CEO of Windhorse International, a for-profit social venture.
• Founder of D-Rev, a non-profit organisation, in 2008.
• Founder of International Development Enterprises (IDE), a non-profit
organisation founded in 1981.

3. • Dedicated to developing practical solutions to combat poverty.
• Worked with farmers in countries around the world for the past
25 years to develop low-cost, income-generating products.
• Helped move 17 million people out of poverty
• Helped IDE help increase poor farmers’ annual net income by
$288 million annually.
• Impacted the way the world viewed the poor-from charity
recipients to potential customers.
• Inspired to involve himself in international development after a
visit to Bangladesh.

4.  Windhorse International:
o For-profit social venture founded to inspire and lead a revolution in how
companies design, price and market their products to benefit the 2.6 billion
customers who live on less than $2 a day around the world. Founded 2007
 IDE:
o International non-profit corporation devoted to the manufacture, marketing
and distribution of affordable, scalable micro-irrigation and other low-cost
water recovery systems through out the developing world. Founded 1981
o Recipient of a US$27 million grant for micro-irrigation projects in India from
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2008
 D-Rev
o A technology incubator that designs and delivers market-driven products to
improve the health and incomes of people living on less than $4/day.
Founded 2007

5. • Spread the notion worldwide: you can and should sell products to
people at a fair price instead of giving it to them for free.
• Ended poverty for 19 million people for making affordable
irrigation technology available to farmers through local small-scale
entrepreneurst and giving them access to very cheap tools-seeds,
fertiliser- and to markets where they could sell their goods.
• IDE’s success inspired imitators
• Out of Poverty, Polak’s book, attracted organisations to break off
from traditional approaches.

6. • http://commons.princeton.edu/kellercenter/annualreport2010/story8.html
• http://www.paulpolak.com/html/paul.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Polak#D-Rev:_Design_for_the_other_90.25
• Done by :
Seow Xian Wang
Wong Wei Kit
Sean Tan Jun Yang
Chua Kai Ze
Of BB 94th Coy