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MICROCREDIT
"When
combined with information and communication technologies,
microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's
poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village
economies they serve."
-- Madeleine K. Albright and John Doerr
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"Microfinance
is an idea whose time has come."
~ Kofi
Annan
"Microfinance
recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs
of energy and knowledge. And while the lack of financial
services is a sign of poverty, today it is also
understood as an untapped opportunity to create
markets, bring people in from the margins and give
them the tools with which to help themselves."
~ Kofi
Annan
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"Give
a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Give a woman
microcredit, she, her husband, her children and
her extended family will eat for a lifetime."
-- Bono
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"Microfinance
stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective
tools in the fight against global poverty."
-- Jonathan Morduch, Chair, UN Expert Group on Poverty
Statistics
"Microloans
enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through
entrepreneurship."
-- Pierre Omidyar
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"Microcredit
is about giving hope."
-- Natalie
Portman
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Small
loans can transform lives, especially the lives of
women and children. The poor can become empowered
instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs
can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals
can feel a sense of worth again.
-- Natalie
Portman
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"The
key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest
of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.
The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the
poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack
the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold,
and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. "
-- Jeffrey
Sachs
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"One
of the most distressing consequences of globalization is
the increase in the wealth of a few while hundreds of millions
of people still live in poverty. However, microfinance is
a powerful tool to begin to change that."
-- Marilou van Golstein Brouwers
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My
vision for the future? Two things: to make credit
a human right so that each individual human being
will have the opportunity to take loans and implement
his or her ideas so that self-exploration becomes
possible. And second: that it will lead to a world
where nobody has to suffer from poverty - a world
completely free from poverty.
-- Muhammad
Yunus
This
is not charity. This is business: business with a
social objective, which is to help people get out
of poverty.
-- Muhammad
Yunus
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