“ By giving poor people the power to help themselves, Dr. Yunushas offered them something far more valuable than a plate offood––security in its most fundamental form.”––Former President Jimmy Carter
Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor-Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank with Ayoub mzee
In my university courses, I dealt in millions and billions of dollars, but here before my eyes, the problems of life and death were posed in terms of pennies. Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor:Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank
What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that. As founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus pioneered microcredit, the innovative banking program that provides poor people––mainly women––with small loans they use to launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty. In the past thirty years, microcredit has spread to every continent and benefited over 100 million families.
But Yunus remained unsatisfied. Much more could be done, he believed, if the dynamics of capitalism could be applied to humanity’s greatest challenges.
Now, in Creating a World Without Poverty, Yunus goes beyond microcredit to pioneer the idea of social business––a completely new way to use the creative vibrancy of business to tackle social problems from poverty and pollution to inadequate health care and lack of educationDARFUR- SUDAN
To many people , the conflict in Darfur appears complicated and overwhelming .But if you pause for a moment and look a little closer you will find that behind the horror.....
....there are people not so different to you and me .Their story,like ours ,is closely intertwined with their past and each Day they put one foot in front of another as they try to forge a future
Its all in this book. WATCH AN INTEVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR LISA BLAKER ON MONDAY 18 TH FEB 2008 AT 10.00 AM LIVE ON THE DIALOGUE-BEN TV SKY 194 AND LIVE ON www.bentelevision.com. HOST: Ayoub Mzee
