Nobel Prize Goes to Microcredit Innovator
Now here’s a story I absolutely loved to read. A man by the name of Muhammad Yunus who runs a specialized bank in Bangladesh, which specializes in “microcredit”, or giving small loans to those who are impoverished and would otherwise be turned away for even the smalles line of credit, to help them to rise out of poverty.
He says that before he won the Nobel Peace Prize, his cries for new and better programs to help those in poverty come out of it easier, or at least give them a better chance at life were ignored, but now that he has become a Nobel Laureate, his pleas for others to follow in his footsteps to help make the world a better place, as well as to help his own business grow and be able to give others a better shot at life will be heard loud and clear.
He’s now in high demand to speak with powerful politicians and others that can help him to make a huge impact on poverty and life betterment, and even drawing the attention of other philanthropists who have similar desires to make the world better through offering small loans and credit to those that have little financial means and may be able to better make their way in the world if they were just given a chance.
I was really inspired by this story, it made me feel that humanity really can be made so much better by just one seemingly small person, and that there really are still people in this world who inspire us to be our most charitable, perhaps even at the sacrifice of profit.
