A young Christian businessman is featured in a television documentary about entrepreneurs who use capitalism to help the poor.
The New Recruits, which premiers tonight on PBS, is about "a battalion of jet-setting business students armed with a radical play to end global poverty," states the program's website. The documentary by New York's Ironbound Films follows several businessmen -- among them, Joel Montgomery, a Christian from Alabama as he attempts to help rural Pakistani farmers counter an imminent water crisis using drip-irrigation systems as an alternative to flooding their fields.
Montgomery works with the Acumen Fund Fellowship, which invests in businesses selling products and services to the poor. He says social entrepreneurship has many advantages over charity...