Ending global poverty – Muhammad Yunus’ speech

Muhammad Yunus talks about the bank he created: Grameen Bank

“It might work in Bangladesh, but it won’t work any where else.” He was wrong!

“We focus on women. 96% of the borrowers are women.”

“Please give money to my husband. I don’t understand money. I have never touched money in my life”

“A typical loan is 9 dollars” Can you think about how to create a business with the money you might spend for a meal?

“Cellphones with solar panels in Bangladesh” – GrameenPhone

“Poverty is a bonsay three”

“Poor people are just like that three, they are just not given the space to grow”

“To get poverty out of the world, we have to redesing concepts of businesses”

“Business today means business to make money”

“It is a break-even business”

“Social business enterprises are needed to address social problems”

“Not to make money, but to solve a problem”

“We need social entrepreneurs”

“All human beings have unlimited potentials, most of us strach only the surface”

“The gift poor people have inside them, never gets opened”

“People don’t come to the bank. The bank goes to the people”

“Money should create money”

“We give loan to income generators”

“We connect them to each other. They learn from each other much faster”

What are your thoughts about it? And what are the thoughts you agree with? And the ones you don’t?

Starting out as a Social Entrepreneur

Skoll Emerge 2009 took place at the Oxford University in November 2009 with the main topic “Emerging Leaders of Social Innovation”.

The event exposed the 300 participants to concepts, examples, resources, organisations and social networks related to the topic.

It was an opportunity to learn, share, and exchange, as well as to be connected to people with same interests.

Here below you can find one of the presentations and you can also find some other videos and pictures at the event’s webpage.