i live in washington dc region but could not understand the microcreditsummits i attended where ipo's became big business and so i went to bangladesh 15 times since 2007 to observe mfp where it scaled - i got especially upset when nobody helped jamii bora's founder with the succession of her bank in kenya in my view the most exciting youth-slum banking model
i found that dr yunus was a great tester of concepts but please remember:worlds most inspiring educator economist servant .leader Fazle Abed died 20 dec 2019 of brac from 1972 had empowered village women to build community health , food security, education as well as finance - the four were inseparable - in fact it was health and food security village microfranchises that had required banking services for the poorest not the other way round
other complicated things happened as tech accelerated and yunus lost ownership of the bank -all this in his the last 10 years before his death of sir fazle- he was ever more focused on 2 legacy coalitions
long term tech partners eg http://www.bkash.com
developing a university coalition with 50 other universities sharing girls sdgs curricula
i also discovered that while grameen became a global consultant before brac partly with encouragement of people like the clintons and spain's queen sofia, it was fazle abed using his prior contacts as regional ceo of shell oil multinational had let it be known village women would try scaling any open source solution people saw as their lifes work relevant to girls building out of the village continent- from the getgo in the 1970s brac had relationships with barefoot chinese medics and continent wide innovators or borlaugs crop science particularly regarding rice without which the last 50 years might have seen a billionmore asians die of famine - his point was at village level across humid asia continent deepest poverty alleviation solutions like oral rehydration, infectious disease inoculations were a without borders need- james grant agreed with this when heading unicef grant himself coming from an american medical missionary family in china- brac uni is proudest of its james grant public school of health
if you look at population statistics two thirds of people are asian - i sort of wish there had been a movement which had not branded solutions within nations when it came to these most basic sdg replications
in the event that what i say chimes with what interests you i am always at chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk and whiel i breathe i will try and connect alumni of the colleges sir fazle saw as the legacy he invited all sdg generations to unite around at the most basic levels of lives and resilient communities matter, as well as priority opportunities f new tech applied to the poorest or most unsafe communities
also if you want a book that was published in 1983 on what brac started - coincidentally the year grameen was licensed by national ordinance - see quiet revolution by marta alter chen - i have not met her but believe harvard is still lucky to be her main teaching platform
chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk bethesda wash dc region
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