Oh she grew up in Westchester and her brother also went to UPenn. “ When Charlie Javice, 19, and her brother Elie, 18, were growing up in the tony community of

Oh she grew up in Westchester and her brother also went to UPenn. “ When Charlie Javice, 19, and her brother Elie, 18, were growing up in the tony community of Westchester in upstate New York, their parents urged them to volunteer their time to help the town’s less fortunate. Throughout their adolescence, they returned to the local soup kitchen, and each year, they saw the same faces. That was their first lesson in the problem of poverty. “Obviously, there was a broken system if the same people kept coming back,” said Charlie. She and her brother are now a sophomore and freshman, respectively, at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where they’re tackling poverty from a different direction. They’ve assembled a student-run microfinance platform called PoverUP that aims to break the cycle of poverty through capital, research and education, and social engagement.” https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/print-edition/2011/12/30/charlie-and-elie-javice.html https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/print-edition/2011/...