Tag: Banker to the Poor

Another Successful Event!

Congratulations to all on a great iZōsh event! More than a hundred women gathered together on Friday, January 11th, for the purposes of granting loans to women in extreme poverty, discussing the book Banker to the Poor by Muhammad Yunus and learning more about micro-loans from our fabulous speaker, Joan Mussa. We gifted $9920 to…
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Our Next Book for Discussion: Banker to the Poor

Banker to the Poor by Muhammad Yunus In 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Twenty-three years later they won the Nobel Prize for Peace for their work in eradicating poverty. This is an inspiring story of one man’s realization that access to even a…
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