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Ambassador 5000 (which 5000 youth of 09/10 most support Bangladesh's microeconomic & sustainability
investment system designs ?) - a YunusForum project generated by journalists, youth and educators at 69th birthday dialogue with Dr Yunus, and Grameen and BRAC, Dhaka, 23-30 June 2009. | 09/10 diary of meetings where we are NOTtalking about needs operations, but
are talking about connecting global people locally through maps that are so transparent that the UN and world bank and
The Fed turn micro up or crumble the way the berlin wall did kenya april 2010 |
July
searches for understanding Humanity's Crisis Year 11, cbs news - Yunus: The economic crisis can be an opportunity for positive social change, Nobel Peace Prize
winner Muhammad Yunus said Saturday during a speech honoring former South African President Nelson Mandela. Yunus, who pioneered a micro-financing system for the poor, said the financial meltdown has shown that traditional ways of doing business have not worked. "This
economic crisis suddenly awakens us to the fact that this system is not working. When the system is not working that is the
best time to undo it and redo it in a new way," he said. "The financial crisis on top of the
food crisis, the energy crisis, the environment crisis, the social crisis _ all these are combined. Isn't it time to wake
up and redo things?" | America's first lady and ours Mail & Guardian Online - Jul 22, 2009 I attended the 7th Annual Nelson Mandela lecture last Saturday at which
Grameen Bank founder Professor Muhammad Yunus gave a most powerful and profound ... Opinion: Educate world's children; match their courage with dollars San Jose Mercury News - Georgia Platts - Jul 12, 2009 Respected moral leaders Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and Queen Rania of
Jordan appealed to the leaders of the world's richest ... A teaching moment The Times of Trenton - NJ.com all 2 news articles » guardian.co.uk Desmond Tutu asks G8 leaders to get world's children into school guardian.co.uk - Jul 1, 2009 His letter, co-written with Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, and Muhammad
Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank, which makes small loans to the ... Mary Robinson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Prof. Muhammad Yunus ... PR Newswire (press release) | Aug 2009 In other news from german friends of Yunus, I hear that a YY (whywhy) fashion logo, dance, celebration from local discos top world stages like olympics
is in concept; I am not sure when in the uni year it will be out but maybe we can make it the prefered dress for kenya's youth
ambassadors and presidents ==== Sam's Yes We Can Story for August I've
written an op-ed you can pitch titled A Champion of Yes We Can angled on the Presidential Medal of Freedom that President
Obama will give to Muhammad Yunus and 15 others on August 12th. If you read it and love it, please offer it
to your op-ed editor so long as your paper wouldn't require a national exclusive (e.g. not the LA Times or NY
Times). Please let me know if you'll pitch it. It's fine if you don't. Thanks so much, Sam When President Obama presents the Medal
of Freedom to 16 distinguished American and international “agents of change” at a White House ceremony on August
12th one of the honorees will link Mr. Obama to both his past and to the future he is so committed to creating.
Among the 16 leaders who will receive America’s highest civilian honor is Professor Muhammad Yunus, the founder
of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which makes tiny loans for self-employment to some of the poorest people in that country.
Prof. Yunus is also one of the world’s most effective champions of the “yes we can” spirit.
Decades ago the economics professor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate described his search for new bank clients as a process
of “looking for the most timid.”He wasn’t looking for the villagers who were the first to step forward to
ask for a micro-loan starting at less than $10, he was looking for those who were last to come forward and who trusted their
abilities the least. To those villagers he and his staff would say, “Yes you can.”
Thirty-three years later nearly 8 million members of Grameen Bank (a total of 40 million when you count their family
members) are saying “yes we can” to the whole world. Since its inception Grameen Bank has lent
more than $8 billion to the poor in Bangladesh.
So how does one start an enterprise that reaches nearly 40 million
people in one’s own country and touches the lives of tens of millions more in replications around the world?
Dr. Yunus had his own “yes we can” moment as a young economics professor who faced an agonizing famine
that left him doubting his value as a teacher and as a human being.
It was in that village that he met a stool
maker who horrified him when she explained that she earned only two cents a day for her beautiful craftsmanship.
With no money to buy the bamboo she needed, Sufia Khatun was forced to borrow from a money-lender who demanded that
she sell her finished stools back to him at a price he set—a price so low that she made only two cents a day profit.
When he asked whether she could earn more if she was freed from the moneylender, she told him, “Yes I can.”
Professor Yunus had a student to look for other villagers who were in the same dilemma. The student
found 42 people who needed a grand total of $27 to pay-off the moneylender, buy their raw materials, and sell their wares
to the highest bidder. That’s right; all they needed was an average of 68 cents each. With
her loan of less than $1 the stool-maker’s profits soared from two cents a day to $1.25 a day.
Now Prof. Yunus has set his sights on titans of business and industry with his social business concept and the chairmen
of Dannone, Intel, and BASF are beating a “yes we can” path to his door to create new non-profit/non-loss businesses
that have as their sole goal improving people’s lives. The corporations can recover their initial
investments in the social businesses, but after that, all profits are plowed back into these new companies. They
include a joint venture with Dannone producing nutritionally fortified yogurt for malnourished villagers, another with BASF
producing chemically treated bed-nets to protect people from mosquitos carrying malaria, and still another with Intel bringing
information technology solutions to rural villages.
When the US President shakes the hand of
the Bangladeshi micro-banker at the White House ceremony this week, Mr. Obama will be touching his own past and the microfinance
work his mother did in Indonesia. And when Professor Yunus opens the Microcredit Summit next April in Nairobi,
Kenya, the micro-banker from Bangladesh will launch the next phase of microfinance in the birthplace of Mr. Obama’s
father and throughout the continent.
President Obama should accompany Muhammad Yunus to that
Summit in Kenya to join in the micro-banker’s most inspiring appeal—a daring call to put poverty in the museums
where it belongs. Yes we can! [728 words] Sam Daley-Harris is Founder of the Microcredit Summit Campaign
which seeks to reach 175 million poorest families with microcredit www.microcreditsummit.org and of RESULTS which seeks to create the political will to end poverty www.results.org. Sam Daley-Harris, Founder RESULTS and Microcredit Summit Campaign 750
First Street, NW, Suite 1040 Washington,
DC 20002 C 202-390-0012
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 system crisis 1/100 -when you have a perfect storm like the global financial meltdown its likely to be 12 crises
deep and only by backtracking to where the first (and then every) system wrong turn is made will you ever recover on
an expoentially sustainable journey an early solution to system crisis 1/100 : search the constructs
that Dr Yunus, his 5000 youth ambassadors and all his collaboration project repicators call social business, future capitalism and grameenmicrocredit -each is mathematically designed to compound hi-trust multiplication around sustainability life critical purposes
and exponentials I doubt
if there is anyone on the planet who consciously knows the full set of wrong turns of what George Soros calls our fallible
age. The hiding of risks as a professional skill scares me particularly where expensive lawyers are hired
to cover up wrong turns and vested interests lobbies make so much noise that free markets of adam smith's hi-trust sort long
ago got polluted by inconvenient truth. Did global banks like Lehmans
and intergalactic derivative insurers like AIG go wrong
because fancy compound maths went wrong, because rating agencies
were bullied into not making independent assessments because we had dismantled regulators from even asking questions openly because toxically packaged
subprime loans went wrong because of the segments of foolish or corrupt loan practices which occurred because the housing market
in USA bubbled which itself wasbecause of some expression of americans wanting to get back
to something they could control because we the people no longer were represented in such global political messes as the iraq war because neither
was community integrity rewarded in bubbles as dotcoms which were the fault not of the value potential of the internet's community
rising but because professions were sponsored to apply the wrong built to flip models by both speculators & because eg mass media didn’t
want the internet's opposite way round media to lead the 21st century which may also be why spam and viruses were built in
to the software of webs so
that serious global village networking debates never were openly sustainable in spite of the technology’s hyper connective
capabilities ERworld: If you take this interconnected scenario, or another one you edit back through other crises of opportunities and risks,
you may find it maps all the way back to not having the spaces ahead of time for global village debates. As the fourth
quarter of the 20th century accelerated technology’s interconnectivity future scenarios were at first exciting
to question what world opportunity and risk becoming mire interconnected than separated would involve the 1984-2024 generation
in making decisions that would compound sustainability (if we united our race behind ending poverty) or its loss for
future generations . Yet somehow instead of all 7 billion people being involved in every diverse way in these debates, we
are being pied pipered by Big Brothers ruling us with fear the way George Orwell warned us not to fast track Foresight in 1984 may have been simpler http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html , but collaborative action
and social business replication is critical to network now through every age group http://collaborationcafe.tv http://yunusyouth.com http://yunusworld.com http://mapgrameen.blogspot.com http://dialoguegrameen.blogspot.com yes we can bureau washington dc 301 881 1655 info@worldcitizen.tv facebook: microeconomics |
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| YES WE CAN CHANGE THE MAPS
& THE MATHS There is good and bad ones
in one common mathematical mistake being at the root of every community at risk of losing sustainability. That is if start
correcting the mistake in time we can start renewing sustainability everywhere. If nor the way exponential curves crash its
curtain call for the great adventure we have called the human race will come probably before the 21st century is
run Trillion
Dollar Maps: Do You & Us Want Leaders Who Enjoy 10-win Sustainability Investment? ~
P1*P2*P3*P4*P5*V1*V2*V3*V4*V5 By way of introduction, don’t
be scared. Whether you are mapping the transparent sustainability of the future of a community that’s dearest to you
like 7 million female Nobel laureates in Bangladesh villages, or a trillion dollar global marketplace: multiplying 10 factors
together does not need you, I or our leaders to be rocket scientists. In fact we will see the main knowledge needed is one
many 5th graders know emotionally, socially and intelligently. This is when any one of the factors is heading
down to zero, multiplying by zero will result in zero however big or powerful the other factors are.
It is worth pointing out from the get-go that the
4 or 5 biggest global accountants don’t do this sort of maths whenever they tell the world that bottom line (added-up)
numbers are all a business must attend to. In fact one of the 5 biggest (Andersen) disappeared because of not being smarter
than a 5th grader. Its powers that were reasoned that as the firm’s valuation among global businesses
went up however much it shredded its Hippocratic oath (true and fair) reducing its value to society to zero that its future
worth would spin round: billions
+0 = billions, not billions*0=0. Strangely while this lesson –dubbed Unseen Wealth in publications by a union of economists
and social lawyers in Washington DC -was there for all the world to learn from in 2002, representatives
of the people have not actioned it. Nor have the remaining global accountants done so, nor have any other professions that
link in to their bottom line numbers to separate their own business monopoly rules over society have learnt enough to call
for system transformation. That’s why every year we are mathematically bound to see more billion dollar corporations
crash down to zero, and since 2008 the whole world has seen that trillion dollar global markets can disappear in multiplying
distrust and illwill. Or we can all go and learn from the sustainability investment models that
bangladesh as a nation started networking around a third of a century ago. A leaflet on Bangaldesh's 5 main collaboration
methods will be published in Dhaka in fall 2009; meanwhile search the constructs that Dr Yunus, his 5000 youth ambassadors and all his collaboration project repicators call social business, future capitalism and grameenmicrocredit -each is mathematically designed to compound hi-trust multiplication around sustainability life critical purposes
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