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I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they nee...more

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The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficien...more

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We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accept...more

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The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank. Any...more

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When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for ...more

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If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot ...more

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The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

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Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themse...more

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The system we have built refuses to recognize people. Only credit cards are recognized. Drivers' licenses are recognized. But not people. People haven...more

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Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human ...more