15 October 2008

Blog Action Day

Today is Blog Action Day, this year dedicated to the issue of global poverty in preparation for Poverty Awareness Day this Friday.

Microfinance companies worldwide are radically improving lives of those living in poverty.

Check out some organizations.  Read up on the movement.  For book reading, I highly recommend both of Muhammed Yunis' books.  A year or two ago, he won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in microcredit--pretty impressive stuff!

Try grameenfoundation.org for some good starting information.

Just because global poverty is a big problem does not mean that it's a problem that we can give up on and ignore.

2 comments:

LL said...

woo-hoo! Go Grameen!!

IzeOfLight said...

Thanks for the reminder! I remembered reading about Yunis and microcredit for the first time 3-4 years ago for my first Accounting class and being blown away by him. Very cool stuff!