Small Loans
Here is a picture of me with Mohamed Yunus, winner of this years Nobel Peace prize for his Grameen Bank in Bangladesh getting poor people out of poverty. He is a real charmer.
Polly
(Polly is, among a zillion other things, a retired UUA minister and smiling dan’s mother-in-law)
And were you there on a trip, chance encounter, or perhaps looking to make a deposit, fund a few startups yourself? Or was he here on his own trip, looking to inspire and rehabilitate the money lenders in our own temples?
Comment by adam — December 3, 2006 @ 9:19 am
They were all congregated in Hallifax NV at a conference on micro-lending.
Yunus there as a participant, as was Polly, to learn, and representing the Ted Guild Bank of the Phillipines, co-founded by her and her late husband.
Comment by smiling Dan — December 3, 2006 @ 2:24 pm
Dr. Yunus was on Oprah today. 58 million people he has helped.
Comment by La Rad — December 4, 2006 @ 5:46 pm