This week's study had a very powerful article for me, it was called "Microlending: Toward a Poverty-Free World" by Muhammad Yunus. He gave this speech while excepting an honorary doctorate from BYU. What I like so much about this talk was that he spoke about one of the largest problems on earth, poverty. He had come up with a real solution for some of the world's poorest people, by lending them a small amount of money so they could make even more money. I think he has some pretty revolutionary ideas and I gain a lot from his talk. My favorite quote is...
"1 strongly believe that we can create a poverty free world if we want to we can create a world where there won t be a single human being who may be described as a poor person in that kind of a world the only place you could see poverty would be in the museums school children on tour in the poverty museums would be horrified to see the misery and indignity of human beings in the past they would blame their ancestors in a massive way for allowing this inhuman condition to continue my work in grameen gradeen has given me a faith an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings that leads me to believe that human beings are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty they have much more important things to do than struggle for physical survival."
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