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" ... Greathouse: Can you tell us a bit about your partnership with Kiva? How have microcredit loans impacted your creators’ ability to expand their businesses? ... "
" ... Mosher explains, "When millions of people were starving from the famine in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus was inspired to try to do something to help. What he ended up creating was a microcredit program that enabled people to start their own income generating activities and get on their feet. But while working with the poorest of the poor, he saw that just like they lack access to financial services they also lack access to so many things we all take for granted: education, healthcare, nutrition, alternative energy, technology, etc. So he's gone on to create 60+ social businesses all aimed at helping the poor." ... "
" ... That was the most transformative moment in my life. I remember feeling that I couldn’t possibly help this woman make money because I didn’t know how to make it for myself -- I was drowning in student loans. That’s when I discovered microfinance and Muhammad Yunus, the social entrepreneur, banker and economist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. So I went to Bangladesh to meet Muhammad Yunus. ... "
" ... This is the story of a pretty ordinary family, the Paynes, from a pretty ordinary state - Kansas -- definitely flyover country -- which produced Stanley Ann Dunham. An extraordinary, somewhat headstrong, woman who lived most of her adult life in Indonesia, she probably could have won a Nobel Peace Price for her work in microcredit, if she had been better known. Her impact, at AID and the Ford Foundation and with departments of the Indonesian government, grew out of her deep understanding of village peasant economics, the importance of women in the rural economy, and her love of the people she met in her work. ... "