I often write drafts of posts and save them to finish later. One such saved and forgotten start was about the Nobel Prize for Economics being awarded to Muhammad Yunus whose micro-lending ventures gave a path out of poverty to millions of the world's poor.
Better than anything I could write are two posts.
From Gates of Vienna: From Rags to a Roof Over Your Head
From 37 days: Help someone buy a cow. Patti met him years ago when she interviewed him for a book.
But this one, this Nobel Peace Prize, I agree with completely. And so, in honor of Mr. Yunus, here is the chapter I wrote some six years ago about his quiet, small revolution. Well done, Mr Yunus, well done:
Posted by Jill Fallon at October 31, 2006 4:27 PM | TrackBack | Permalink