Avid Brigada participants will remember our review of, “When Helping Hurts,”
https://brigada.org/2009/06/07_2121
Along similar lines, Brigada participant, Phoebe, recently shared with us another book, Banker to the Poor. See more information at…
http://www.bankertothepoor.com/bankertothepoor/
The author, Muhammad Yunus, himself a Bengali, was a Fulbright scholar and earned the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. I first read about him in Covey’s new book, “The 8th Habit.” Legitimate guy. This is his memoir of how he decided to change his life in order to help the world’s poor. He “traces the intellectual and spiritual journey that led him to fundamentally rethink the economic relationship between rich and poor, and the challenges he and his colleagues faced in founding Grameen.” He also provides wise, hopeful guidance for anyone who would like to join him in “putting homelessness and destitution in a museum so that one day our children will visit it and ask how we could have allowed such a terrible thing to go on for so long.” As such, “Banker to the Poor” is inspirational reading for anyone interested in economics, public policy, philanthropy, social history, and business.
Buy Yunus’ book online at Amazon by logging on to this item at Brigada, then clicking on the link to Amazon.
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