I had the privilege to attend York College to see Dr Muhammad Yunus (2007 Nobel Peace Prize Winner for Peace) thanks to Project Enterprise and Nadine Hendrickson.

It truly affected me in more ways than one to see someone determined to change the world in a way never attempted before. We all know how Dr Yunus took that baby step by giving 42 women in a rural Bangladeshi village a personal tiny amount of $27 so they could start a business and save themselves from predatory lending.

Today, some 30 years later, Grameen bank has over 7.5 million borrowers and co-operative owners with billions in loan assets.

I don’t want to reveal everything he said in his speech. I hope you will get a chance to see Dr Yunus and hear from the person himself about his philosophy and how he is changing the world one step at a time.

Broadly, he suggested that…

- All of us must take one tiny step in whatever we strongly believe in. Something, which will change the world.

- Start small. Make it work and if it does, take another bigger step.

- Sometimes not knowing it all is a good thing. It makes you takes chances as opposed to not taking chances because you already think you know the outcome.

- He took the banking model and did exactly the opposite. It worked. He did everything the opposite of what the banks did.

- People who are poor and those who need credit the most are credit worthy too.

- He wants to (some day) create a poverty museum, so one day we can take our children there to see that once poverty existed.

To be updated.

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